Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Design for Famine. It was not the British blockade that caused the Greek famine. The Nazi Army of Occupation last year worked like a pack of driver ants and left the country bone-clean. More than half of Greece's wheat (which had to be supplemented by imports in normal times) was "sold" to Germany. Greek tomatoes, even green ones, were hurried to scurvy-ridden German troops in Africa. Livestock, dried vegetables and fruits went the same way. The Germans fried Greek potatoes in Greek fat and shipped them, cooked, back to Germany. The Nazi Army of Occupation, during...
Fury. The Chinese and the Dutch were not too happy anyhow. They had been slighted in the formation of the Allied Supreme Far Eastern Command. Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had not been taken into the joint counsels beforehand, had been tossed an unlikely bone-operations in Indo-China and Thailand. The Dutch had been left out altogether. And yet the Allied Supreme Command demanded Chinese troops, airmen and goods in Burma; then proceeded to Java and began to tell the Dutch what...
...researcher of the American Museum of Natural History, studying the evolution of the human foot, went on to investigate feet at Yale. Then with Dr. Herbert Elftman he devised his apparatus to study feet, His findings: most trouble with the foot starts with the first metatarsal, the small bone behind the great toe. Normally this bone carries two-sixths of the weight of the body. If it is short or wobbly, the second metatarsal has to take up the load. Weak ankles are usually caused by a loose-jointed metatarsal; so are heels worn down on one side. Real flat...
...carefully stored it away in his files of similarly exuberant Souchons: Van Gogh-like pictures of hot, shadowless Louisiana cornfields, quaint, warm-colored, old-worldly interiors, and fanciful, childlike coloristic riots like The Farm (see cut), in which two bright blue mules sit grotesquely under a clump of bone-bare trees while lambs and pigs gam, bol in the distance...
...Kent, who returned to the squad this week after some time spent recuperating from a broken bone in his foot, sustained during the cross-country season, won't be ready for action until February at the earliest, while Rollo Campbell has not yet returned to the squad. He too suffered a leg injury in the course of the hill-and-dale season...