Word: boned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...German warships, attempting by the menace of their guns to make the Spanish Reds release the Nazi freighter Palos which they had seized and interned at Bilbao. Amid much bluster on both sides, the Nazis made "unalterable demands," the Reds "unalterable refusals," and the little Palos became a bone over which could snarl the mightiest dogs of war. Meanwhile a fresh White offensive surged completely into Madrid from the west, occupying the north station near the onetime Royal Palace, then was swept completely out again by the Reds...
Accidents sent three other New Yorkers to the hospital - Les Corzine with a broken ankle, Gene Rose with a bone bruise, Tony Sarausky with a concussion. Darkness came on so early in the afternoon that the second half was played under flood lights. In a cold, steady rain, the game remained partially concealed from 18,000 spectators by a cloud of steam arising from the players' bodies. When the lights went off and the mist cleared, Boston had won, 14-to-0, with one touch down on Donald Irwin's line plunge climaxing a 38-yd. march...
MORE than 25 years ago Homer Rhodcheaver, student at Ohio Wesleyan, discovered that had all the talents that make an evangelist's helped. He could shout, sing, play the from bone, and possessed the physical vitality that made him a good college baseball player. He was Ohio Wesleyan's cheer leader, sang in the glee club and learned persuasion by debating on the varsity debate squad...
First the surgeons cut two-inch-long slits into the patient's scalp down to the bone. Each slit lies slightly more than an inch away from the midline of the skull and crosses a line running across the head from ear to ear. At each junction of the ear-to-ear line and the slits in the scalp, Drs. Freeman & Watts drill a hole with a dentist's bur. The bur holes permit passage of a leucotome, or lobotomy cannula, a hollow needle through which a loop of wire can be slipped...
...When you work for Degas," said one of the "rats" to Biographer Julius Meier-Graefe, "you can feel every bone in your body...