Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the Mayo Clinic and with more than a score of other physicians all over the U.S. As she chatted with the President, four Missouri physicians dropped in to discuss her progress. But it woul'd be six to eight weeks before anyone would know whether the fractured bone would knit...
...crowd yelled: "Let the Champ try!" "The Champ," the fourth rider, tried. He gave the now lolling head a tremendous jerk. But bone and sinew held...
...Weeks' Wait. After lunch the President went back to his mother's one-and-a-half story frame house to find out what the doctors had to say. The diagnosis: "Complete fracture at the neck of the right femur." Traction should pull the bone into good position, they told him, and she might be out of bed in six weeks...
...impoverished country. In the week of the coal crisis, Britain's Government decided to maintain its armed forces at over a million men. Many (including the Communists) had urged Britain to abandon her commitments in Greece, Palestine and elsewhere, and to cut her Army to the bone. The Times of London replied: "A nation which lives by overseas trade and which, however grievous its present distress, yet possesses and controls much that is enviable cannot afford remedies of this kind...
...Sophie Chimes was determined to get some coal, no matter how little, and no matter if it meant standing all day long in the queue. But after two hours in a bone-chilling wind, Mrs. Chimes collapsed. Neighbors carried her to her small, cold, prefabricated dwelling in the bomb-scarred slums of London's Whitechapel...