Word: boned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleaded for selfdiscipline, fervently exhorting his hearers not to get the sneezing habit-which was very much like bidding a patient with a raging fever to keep cool. . . . Treatment ranged from what was called respiratory gymnastics to such Spartan measures as cauterization of the prostate gland in males and bone-breaking without discrimination...
...these departments, where middle-group teaching is being pared to the bone, is Government. Professor Holcombe has suggested that the remedy lies in handing the department two new permanent appointments, presumably full professorships. This would mean diverting funds from other departments -- robbing Peter to pay Holcombe. Regardless of the long-run merits of such a plan, it is unnecessary. The Government Department can solve its problems for the present and still live within its current income if it is permitted to appoint "frozen" associate professors...
...came shortly afterwards, on December 17, 1830. Wasted to skin & bone, coughing blood, racked with hemorrhoids, the 47-year-old Liberator cried out in his last delirium: "José! Bring the luggage. They do not want us here...
Those who have said that a new war would have no heroes reckoned without such as Stefan ("The Stubborn") Starzynski, Mayor of Warsaw, a truly great fighter, very marrow of the very bone of Warsaw's hopeless 20-day defense. Like a captain who goes down with his ship, like a wild animal which perishes defending its nest, Mayor Starzynski meant what he said when he cried over Warsaw's radio: "We are fighting to death." Last week, as it must even to the greatest men, death came to Stefan the Stubborn. Stubbornly, he died...
...hunch to keep away from political talks was surely a sound one. For to say that the war is no banding together against a Genghis Khan but a mere squabble between nations 15 to reveal, not merely the foot of clay, but far worse, the head of bone...