Word: bone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their family's medical catastrophes. The scientific evidence may be statistical rather than empirical, but it is convincing. Lieut. Zumwalt seems inclined to take it as it comes. His childhood illnesses may have taught him valuable lessons about physical and psychological courage. He endures radiation, chemotherapy and painful bone-marrow transplants that slow but do not stop his cancers. Most of the news he gets from his doctors is bad. "I really had to work on myself mentally to avoid sadness and depressions, . . ." he writes. "I began to see my illness as a process of diminishing expectations and choices...
...this deftly edited collection of his dispatches, Pyle's view of what is now an ancient campaign returns as a haunting narrative. A column written from Tunisia in 1943 was titled "The God-Damned Infantry" -- rough language for those days -- and it told of an endless line of bone-tired foot soldiers slogging forward across rolling hills after four days of battle...
...Robert Ebert, whereas Harvard has affiliations with 13. These unexcelled facilities have helped generate such breakthroughs as John Enders' growing of the polio virus in a test tube, the first invitro fertilization of a human egg, the first successful kidney transplant and pioneering lab methods for growing skin and bone...
...espionage, Judge John Vukasin chose the closest thing: he sentenced Jerry Whitworth, a member of the Walker family espionage ring, to 365 years in prison. Whitworth will not be eligible for parole for 60 years, when he would be 107. "Jerry Whitworth," said Vukasin, "is a zero at the bone," a man who had betrayed his country for money because "he believes in nothing." Whitworth said only, "I'm very, very sorry...
Even when it came to the issue of Central America, the most stubborn bone of contention in previous meetings, De la Madrid tried to strike a tone at once understanding and independent. He conceded that little success had been met by the Contadora Group, in which Mexico joins Colombia, Venezuela and Panama to work for a negotiated settlement of the region's conflicts. But in a pointed criticism of Washington's support of the contras in Nicaragua, he stressed that "violence will not take care of the problems...