Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside, it was bone cold. Inside, big stoves were stoked red-hot to warm the 800 dancers who whirled over the floor of Loebel's Volksgaststatte, a rambling stucco dance hall and restaurant in Berlin's British zone...
...According to Hercules, My Shipmate, by Robert Graves, the Golden Fleece was a bone of contention in divine power politics. Helle and Phryxus, tools of the "old religion" faction, stole it to spite Zeus, and Phryxus took it to Colchis. Jason, who was pro-Zeus, won it back...
...impossible to untangle. The chief difficulty was that Pascal had guaranteed Deborah a certain sum after British taxes. To Hollywood the price seemed prohibitive. Poor Deborah languished as helplessly as the rich man with the needle's-eye view of heaven. Then, suddenly, she became more like a bone at the vortex of a dogfight. MGM, Sam Goldwyn, Loew-Lewin, Hal Wallis and J. Arthur Rank were all trying to get at her. It was M-G-M which finally bought out Pascal, and gave her a new contract. For an unknown it was fairly fabulous-a document...
...Since no one has ever told her that the adored father who died when she was five was a weakling, a dipsomaniac and a thief, June sits all day at the piano, strumming Debussy and mooning over daddy's memory. Meanwhile, stepmother Claudette works her fingers to the bone on the big real-estate deals that keep the family going...
...abdomen, the surgeons grafted tissue to give the hand form. From his foot they got tendons (which the foot could get along without), from his thigh, slippery tissue for the tendons to slide on; from his calf, sections of nerve; from his hip, a piece of flank bone. Transplanted, these body materials in a few weeks gave the soldier a new hand, not perfect, but good enough to do carpentry with...