Word: bone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...skeleton unearthed last December half a mile from the site of Hitler's bunker was indisputably that of Bormann, said Horst Gauf, the Hesse state prosecutor whose office was in charge of the case. He said that bone and dental evidence made it a "certainty" that theoft-seen phantom had died in the fall of Berlin. He therefore ordered all search warrants quashed; any future reports that Bormann has been sighted will be officially ignored...
...favorite props of the North Vietnamese captors were lengths of rope, iron manacles that could be screwed down to the bone and fan belts for administering beatings. Prisoners claimed that they were tied up for interminable periods into positions that yogis could not assume. Ropes tied to a man's ankles, wrists and neck were tightened until he was bent over backward in a doughnut shape. Men were also bent forward into a position of a baby sucking its big toe. The ropes cut off circulation, and in several cases paralyzed limbs for months, even years...
...soon as I was out, I knew I was hurt," says Kasler. "My right thigh was broken, and a piece of bone about eight inches long had split off and jammed into my groin. I landed near some paddies 50 miles south of Hanoi. About 15 villagers jumped me and tore off all my clothes except my shorts. Then they saw my leg. In about five minutes a medic came, gave me a shot and made a splint out of a banana tree. They put me in a fish net and started carrying me-when the planes came...
...They had these iron manacles with a screw that they could clamp on your wrists or ankles. They'd take your wrists, put them behind you and screw down those manacles to the bone. Then they'd take a rope and pull it through your upper arms and squeeze your arms together or pull them up. They had a lot of tricks...
...National Institutes of Health, stresses that he has no intention of trying to grow such spare parts in humans. But he does believe that the power to regenerate tissue could prove important in other medical applications. Techniques that could grow new tissue on a broken bone might ultimately replace joint cartilage destroyed by arthritis. They might even help patients with hearts damaged by disease to grow new cardiac tissue...