Word: boned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problems multiply. With truck convoys that deliver the food to regional distribution centers frequently harassed by antigovernment rebels, the government's only solution to the problem is to close the roads -- and no food gets through. Airlifting is far more reliable: the giant C-130s can fly across the bone-white moonscape from Massawa to the interior city of Mekele in just half an hour. The unloading crews at the airstrip are a sight to behold. "Move it, move it, go ahead forward, go ahead forward, time is passing, time is passing," chanted a group of 15 barefoot...
...vulnerable of all are ballet dancers. "They are like Thoroughbred racehorses," says Dr. William Hamilton, who is affiliated with New York's Miller Institute, one of the most comprehensive of the new clinics. Falls and poor landings from jumps can cause sudden injuries, including sprained backs and snapped foot bones. "The fifth metatarsal breaks like a chicken bone," says Hamilton, orthopedic surgeon for the New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theater. "You can hear it in the audience when it happens." Overuse and chronic trauma produce inflammations of tendons and stress fractures of foot and leg bones. Many...
Turbitt, who was a major contributor to the team during the indoor season, has been suffering from an injured pelvic bone and will not return this season...
This he resisted, except in token ways, as when he asserted his desire to be the "education President," a nice phrase that remains a flesh-free bone in his skeletal rhetoric. To go much further would be to flaunt the reality that, unlike Reagan, Bush at heart is a pragmatist rather than an ideologue, a manager rather than an innovator. In retrospect, Bush's caution was just right for the orthodox Republican primary electorate in most states, and particularly in the South, where Reagan's popularity rating in the party remains above 80%. But presidential campaigns are about change...
...novel approach to dream research," says Hobson, who received an M.D. from Harvard in 1959. "Nobody had ever studied the electrical activity of the individual [brain] cells during sleep. What we did was use microelectrodes in the brain to see what was going on. We put them under the bone and aimed them at the cells where we thought REM was occuring and put an object on the bone to measuere the output...