Word: bone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Some experts believe that France's President may be suffering from multiple myeloma, a debilitating disease of the bone marrow. His puffy features are probably a side effect of cortisone treatments...
...must import those needed by its mighty industries. Prices began to rise sharply in 1972, in part because of the sudden spurt in the global cost of commodities and smartly rising wages. To restrain inflation last year the government reined in the money supply and cut spending to the bone. Then the oil crisis burst on Japan, raising nightmares of economic stagnation. Panicky consumers rushed to buy up everything in sight, wholesalers hoarded goods in jammed warehouses in anticipation of even higher prices, and living costs ticked up with the regularity of a taxi meter. The government has now clamped...
LIMBS. Artificial thigh bones made of titanium and other modern alloys are being developed, primarily by Japanese surgeons. Dr. Yasuto Itami, of Tokyo, recently designed and implanted a titanium and polyethylene thigh bone that can be precisely adjusted to fit the patient when it is installed. Other orthopedists are using cords of woven Dacron-which is chemically inert and thus will not trigger an immune response -to repair or replace damaged tendons. Dr. William Harrison Jr. of Tulsa, Okla., uses Dacron tubing to repair separated shoulders; the material forms a scaffolding or framework upon which new ligament can grow...
...noise is issuing from the cattle-feeding pens of Colorado, Texas and the Middle West-and not just from the steers awaiting slaughter. The feed-lot operators are moaning too, because a consumer rebellion against beef and soaring costs of fattening cattle threaten to trim their profits to the bone. Says an official of the Colorado Cattlemen's Association: "A lot of boys are going to belly...
...guilty of repetition and a certain atrocious lushness:"Silver trees cut into the black sky like a photographer's negative" and "clouds slide by like a tablecloth whipped off a table." But sooner or later, a pilgrim who refuses to believe in progress, she cuts back to the bone. To an age hooked on novelty, variety and pluralism, her message is as clear as William Blake's: "See a world in a grain of sand"-if you dare...