Word: bone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...austere Ted Heath, nothing seemed to go right. Ill at ease in crowds and bone-dry in manner, he made such an unfavorable impression among reporters who followed him that they began referring to him as "poor Ted Heath" while calculating the size of Wilson's victory. Late in the campaign, Heath made a painful effort to unbend a little, but even that sometimes backfired. When TV cameramen swarmed out of a campaign bus to snap Heath in the extraordinary act of kissing a child, a sudden downpour sent everyone running for cover. "If I had any doubts before," muttered...
...Bone. The book's main charm, and it is considerable, is the character of Jenny. She is brash, forthright and funny. When OIlie gets pompous she calls him "Preppie." When he reaches for a martyr's mantle, she points out that he is probably in love with her "negative social status." Says Segal: "I call it to-the-bone truth. She sees through him, as true love does...
Last December, the HEW Commission on Pesticides and their Relationship to Environmental Health suggested that Carbaryl-an insecticide sprayed to combat the elm leaf beetle-was a potential health hazard to man. It apparently causes bone malformations in litters of mice and beagle dogs...
These masterful images because complete Grew in pure mind, but out of what began? A mound of refuse, or the sweepings of a street, Old kettles, old bottles, and a broken can, Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut Who keeps the till. Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all the ladder's start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart...
...operations had been made of steel. Charnley disliked the steel-to-steel joint because it must be lubricated solely by body fluids, which are often inadequate. A plastic socket would require no lubrication. But what plastic? He tried Teflon, only to have it break loose and damage nearby bone. "One day," he says, "a salesman turned up with a sample of high-density polyethylene. I sent him away, telling him that we knew that polyethylene was useless. I hadn't heard of high-density polyethylene, but luckily my lab technician had, and behind my back he told the salesman...