Word: boned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could say he was a man who had gone to pieces, or maybe he'd always been in pieces; maybe he'd arrived unassembled. Various parts of him seemed poorly joined together. His lean, hairy limbs were connected by exaggerated knobs of bone; his black-bearded jaw was as clumsily hinged as a nutcracker. Parts of his life, too, lay separate from other parts. His wife knew almost none of his friends. His children had never seen where he worked; it wasn't in a safe part of town, their mother said. Last month's hobby...
...Essay "Back to Reticence" [Feb. 4]! It admirably depicts my feelings since my arrival in this country. I recently had the dubious privilege at one of the Yale dining halls of sitting next to a law student who ate with his hat on and used a chicken bone as a toothpick. In many countries, such behavior would automatically render a person ineligible for any qualified position. How can you bear...
...Canada, Czechoslovakia and Sweden; the spectacular speed skaters from East Germany and the U.S.S.R.; high-flying figure skaters from Britain and Russia; the ski jumpers from any country with athletes crazy and courageous enough to think they can hurtle off a 257-ft. tower and land without breaking every bone in their bodies. And in most of the major events, for the first time ever, there will be Americans with at least a well-founded dream of winning Olympic medals ?bronze, silver and, yes, gold...
...bone-jarring autobiography...
...scientific revolutions, the modern giants of the earth still fear the whims and challenges of nature. Last week, while farmers outside Fargo, N. Dak., fed their livestock and waited to plant their spring wheat, temperatures fell to 18° below zero, and the steady icy winds were a bone-numbing 15 m.p.h. Cracked U.S. Congressman Mark Andrews, who is a North Dakota farmer: "Up here we say that 40 below zero keeps the riffraff...