Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bone and Spirit. Berlin had felt the touch of total war before. Eighty-four raids and some 10,000 tons of bombs had left their mark on the city and its people...
hammered at the bone and spirit of Berlin with five raids in five successive nights...
...Whenever an X-ray plate or the bone itself shows any sign of damage to the skull's outer shell, a small, exploratory burr hole should be made at that spot. Reason: a blow which causes a slight bruise on the skull's outer shell often causes a serious fracture of the inner shell. In one case, where only a threadlike crack showed on the surface, a bit of the skull's inner shell had been driven almost an inch into the brain...
There was some discussion as to just why that canine was barking so petulantly at Jawn Harvard the other morning during muster, and the best explanation seems to be that they tried to pass off another mutton bone on him at the Union. If he'd had a little more time he'd probably have had all the student officers barking with...
...flagship, the U.S.S. Card, an unarmored merchant ship equipped with an aircraft landing deck: "Scratch one pig-boat-am searching for more." The Borie found another huge pigboat on the surface. Cried a signalman: "My God, what is it, the Bremen?" In ten to 30 seconds the Bone's guns swept the sub's deck. The destroyer leaped forward to ram, went partly over, her bow straddling the U-boat's forward deck. There she stuck. For ten feverish minutes the Borie poured metal from her 4-in. guns, her tommy guns, shotguns and pistols...