Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that, at one of the promoter's wrestling shows, a lady wrestler, twice tossed out of the ring by her opponent, twice landed on him. The first time, Beaudoin helped the lady climb back. The second time, he was hauled away to a hospital with a broken collar bone...
...major of infantry now an oil company employee, did what thousands of Kansans were doing to fortify themselves for the holidays. He drove to Missouri, bought two bottles of bourbon for himself and seven bottles for some friends and toted them in his car back to bone-dry Kansas...
...side of U.S. 112 near Willow Run, and stuck out his thumb. He had a $50 bill, a sign that said "Rose Bowl or Bust," a box of his mother's chicken sandwiches, and letters to wirephoto bureaus along the way. At 6:30 p.m., chilled to the bone (and with $47.86 left) he got to Coldwater, Mich., 114 miles from home...
Maman, as pretty as ever at 48, thought most about le réveillon. One by one, she cooked the traditional dishes. There was bouillon to thaw the family out when they returned from Mass (the big beef bone was already in the pot). There were tourtières (spicy pork pies), rillettes (pork tidbits to be eaten with bread or thrown into the mouth like candy), croutons (crusty bread browned in pork fat), twelve dozen sugared beignets (doughnuts), tete a fromage (headcheese). Soon the kitchen, then the whole ten-room apartment on Fraser Street, was fragrant with the odor...
...spending to the bone. (The bone, as the N.A.M. figures it, would be a budget of $31 billion for 1948-49-some $6.5 billion below the current budget...