Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...draft age to 18 or 19 (making students subject to immediate call) was virtually a certainty after election; the Navy may resort to the draft; even if the Armed Forces allowed students to stay in college for training as reservists, they would cut enrollment and curriculum to the bone of military necessity...
...recent varsity players now in khaki, is split into two task forces: Eastern and Western. The Western group is coached by Major Wallace Wade, whose Alabama and Duke teams have been picked for the Rose Bowl five times. The Eastern group, under Colonel Bob Neyland-another football mastermind whose bone-crushing Tennessee teams won 30 straight games in 1938-39-40-will start its four-game series against the New York Giants Sept...
Smart President Farish, whose approach is as smooth as his head, told first of his Humble Oil beginnings, but barely reached page one of his 35-page statement when the interruptions started. Senator Homer T. Bone, chairman, was quick to challenge any implication that the case against Standard had been one-sided. Said the Senator: "I am fed up on big outfits like yours indicating to the public that Congress is trying to ride them. God knows we are not big enough to ride your outfit. You are one of the biggest corporations in the world." Later, the Senator philosophized...
...Said Senator Bone, as the hearings closed: "Perhaps you thought I was not all sweetness and light. ... I dislike a lot of the controls under our patent laws . . . because I think they worked to our disadvantage. I am particularly irked ... in fact I feel most bitter . . . because it was a German control...
...pins from under John Bennett, once a Roosevelt protégé. And big, bald, genial Jim Farley was determined to make this a real fight. After all, he had the delegates (up to now). Within an hour after Jim Mead announced his candidacy, Jim Farley issued a bone-bruising statement. He cited nine occasions on which Jim Mead had said he did not want to be Governor of New York; he said Jim Mead was "scared" of the job, said that he would make a "terrible" governor. He charged that the draft-Mead move was a "piece of political...