Word: bone
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Christian history is replete with bone-rattling documents of theological protest that capsuled the pressing issues of the day: Martin Luther's 95 Theses, which sparked the Reformation, Pope Pius IX's 19th century Syllabus of Errors, and the German Confessing Christians' Barmen Declaration against Nazism. The technique has fallen into disuse, but it was dusted off last week by a group of 18 Christian thinkers of nine denominations. After a weekend war council at the Hartford Seminary Foundation in Connecticut, they joined in a dramatic warning that American theology has strayed dangerously far afield...
President Ford's skiing endeavors had produced no bone-breaking, side-splitting anecdotes and the excitement of the Tidal Basin affair had pretty well ebbed, so when the National Collegiate Athletic Association descended on Washington recently for its annual convention the conversation of the Capital turned to jock talk...
Aside from the comic spectacle of great actresses playing roles that are beneath their dignity but elevated to something more by the very fact that they are playing them, the most pleasurable thing about Murder is its surface. The flashback sequence at the beginning is pared to the bone; blue filters and slow motion make it into a ballet of form, a non-human prelude to a film that for the rest of its length is nothing but people talking at each other. Next Lumet shows us his cast assembling from all over the world to board the Orient Express...
...same mountain in 1960-61. But the pattern of ski injuries was greatly changed. In the past, the classic ski injury, the broken ankle, accounted for nearly half of all ski fractures. Now, because of stiff plastic boots that protect the ankles, and bindings that release under bone-breaking tensions, such injuries make up only 16% of the total. "The reduction in leg injuries has been bought at the expense of the arm and torso," the doctors say. Twelve years ago, sprained and broken ribs, arms and shoulders were relatively rare among skiers. Since then, sprains have increased fourfold...
...Stalin. He quickly rose through the ranks as senior officers were liquidated in the 1937- 38 purges, and became Navy Commissar in 1939 at the age of 37. Kuznetsov embarked on a massive cruiser and battleship building program and restored czarist-style discipline on shipboard, requiring officers to wear bone-handled swords. He mapped the naval strategy used against Finland in 1940, and later led his fleet against the Nazis. Demoted by a suspicious Stalin, he was reinstated in 1951 and finally fell from power in 1956, when Khrushchev decided that Kuznetsov's emphasis on a surface navy...