Word: boned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forward pass was written into the rules in 1906, after President Theodore Roosevelt shook his Big Stick at bone-crushing mass plays...
When teeth are pulled, the vacant gums shrink slowly; months elapse before the absorption of bone is complete and the tissues are stabilized. Therefore dentists used to wait six months to a year before fitting false teeth. During the interval, the cheeks and lips caved in, the chewing muscles were weakened. The victim could hardly eat or talk, was constantly uncomfortable and embarrassed...
...snow, loyalties had cringed and sickened, the whole world had learned to fear, suspect, hate. Among other things it had become plain that while Germans were without question the most meticulous, thorough, shrewd, methodical fighters in the world, Britons had dug down to the marrow of each British bone and to the ganglion of each British nerve, and demonstrated that despite gross muddleheadedness and inefficiency, Britain could fight...
...lounging around a hotel lobby, a lush-bearded young man from New Hampshire named Nehemiah Kenison met a Scotsman who had a new, painless method of removing corns. Instead of digging with a scalpel, he first softened the corn in acid, then carefully shelled it out with a dull bone blade...
...from his desk in the U. S. Senate one day last week rose round-shouldered, wraithlike Homer Truett Bone. Loudly he wondered why "the stubbornness of one man" (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) should be allowed to imperil the lives of 900 American refugees bound for the U. S. from Finland aboard the U. S. Army transport American Legion. The State Department gave no official explanation of why the route of the American Legion was not changed after Germany refused to guarantee her safe conduct through mined British waters north of Scotland...