Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Durrance was not content with a single masterpiece: [there were] the leaky balloon; the old streetcar; the stealthy assassin (gurgle and choke); the delayed-action infernal machine; the badgered bear with its refreshing and vigorous variant, the dog with bone . . . [and] the difficult aircraft motif. He flew a four-hour mission, involving several hundred planes...
Robert Capa, war-going LIFE photographer, parachuted into Germany last week with the U.S. 17th Airborne Division. Two nights later he turned up in Paris, bone-weary, unshaven, still clad in a dirty paratroop uniform. At the apartment of TIME'S chief military correspondent, Charles Christian Wertenbaker, Mr. Capa consented to eat some ham and eggs and beefsteak and bread and butter and cheese and cake, and to drink some coffee and burgundy and champagne and cognac. Between swallows he explained what it was like...
...Engineers, was like blowing peas at an elephant. Sometimes he simply turned his beefy back. Some times, enraged or full of whiskey, he used his fists. Once he slugged the A.F. of L.'s David Dubinsky; another time he kicked in a minor labor leader's cheek bone. But neither taunts, rivals nor the law really bothered Joe Fay much...
...morphine, he was in extreme agony, and he pleaded with the doctors: "Please, can't you put me to sleep. My God, my feet feel numb." It was no wonder. One of his feet had been blown off just above the ankle, leaving a piece of charred bone protruding from beneath a hastily applied bandage. In addition, his other leg was mangled, probably beyond saving, and his arms and hands had been badly torn and burned black. In a few-minutes he stopped groaning, and when the doctor sought to turn his arm gently, the wounded man said...
Mechanically, the surgeons agree, there is no reason such a splint should not work if the lower end of the rod were firmly wedged in hard tissue. But in the past, use of internal splints has been restricted to slim wire to align broken bones in fingers, toes and arms. In such cases, outside splinting is also used and the mended bones are not required to withstand any end-to-end pressure. They call the rod technique "a daring operation" and wonder how their German colleagues insert it without dangerously cutting down blood supply and without introducing infection. Surgeons...