Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Canadian steaks could be eaten only in Canada. Most tourists could not take them across the line into the U.S. Reason: meat is rationed in Canada to one coupon (good for i to 3 Ibs., depending on the bone content) per person per week, and tourists had to stay at least seven days to get ration coupons. Tourists who tried to smuggle in meat were nabbed at customs. (One U.S. citizen who tried to take back $110 worth of meat had to give the meat away.) New York reporters, on meat-hunting assignments in Canada, found "a paradise of pork...
Even these tiny shots induced vomiting, destroyed some blood-forming tissue in the bone marrow and lymph glands. But they did attack certain types of cancer...
During the past two years, Managing Editor Michael Straight of the New Republic has attempted to make of the magazine he inherited from his father something more than the bone-dry receptacle of warmed-over liberal thought it had become after Herbert Croly's brilliant reign. The announcement that on December 1 Henry Wallace will assume the newly created post of Editor constitutes the most important single event in the renascence of the New Republic...
...sixth round Champion Zale had a bleeding lip, red welts over both eyes, a buzzing head, a chipped bone in his right thumb. Graziano's only apparent wound was a bloody nose. Groggy but still game, Zale suddenly launched a tigerish attack on Rocky's midsection. The challenger crumpled, gasping for air, and a following left hook floored him. When he finally got his wind back, he jumped up full of fight, but it was too late...
Like most New Yorker short story writers, Author Parsons knows how to reproduce scenes from middle-class American life with photographic neatness, and a restraint that verges on bloodlessness. Author Parsons' characters are often worn to the bone by despair and nostalgia, but they are rarely impolite; they give vent to long sighs, but never to bad language...