Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Madison. Going to the old red brick hotel, I was shown to a nicely furnished room with private bath. Being hungry, I hurried down to supper. The old colored waiter shuffled to my table and I asked him what was cooking. "Roast beef, baked ham, fried chicken and T-bone steak," he replied. I ordered the steak . . . and he shuffled out. Presently he set before me tomato juice and avocado salad. This was followed by the steak with French-fried potatoes, Golden Bantam corn, a dish of green field peas, ice tea and hot biscuits with country butter. For dessert...
...Bone-Grinder. Orel was for the Germans, like Stalingrad, a Knochenmühle (bone-grinder). A Nazi war correspondent wired the Völkischer Beobachter: "Today's setting sun has seen more soldiers dying than soldiers sleeping. For every single minute during the entire day all of us, from the last private to the highest staff officer, have been conscious of the monstrous Russian superiority. Our battalions had to be spread out very thin to meet the Russian attacks everywhere. Last night we were forced to retreat hastily. .. . All we could take with us were a few artillery pieces...
...shut your eyes you would bet she was a man. But last week's audiences at Manhattan's Downtown Cafe Society lad their eyes open. They heard a sinewy young Negro woman play the solid, unpretentious, flesh-&-bone kind of jazz piano that is expected from such vigorous Negro masters as James P. Johnson. Serene, reticent, sloe-eyed Mary Lou Williams was not selling a pretty face, or a ow decolletage, or tricksy swinging of Bach or Chopin. She was playing blues, stomps and boogie-woogie in the native Afro-American way-an art in which...
...problem was to lick the manpower and housing shortage, the intense, bone-chilling 35°-below-zero Soo winters, in order to slash the 20-month scheduled estimate. When weary workers poured the last concrete-mix a fortnight ago, the scheduled time had been slashed by seven months. For this feat, an Army and Navy E went to the Great Lakes company...
...skilled in jungle warfare, tore into the Japs, killing 100. Boston medium bombers thundered low over the retreating enemy. After five days of scattered fighting the score of Jap casualties was 204. Planes continued to roar overhead daily, blasting supply dumps of an enemy whose supplies had long been bone-thin, strafing stubborn units which still persisted in helpless defense...