Word: boned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year, what better way to trick those Hallowed Eve blues than by treating yourself to a good gothic read? We ain't talking Stephen King pulp or Amityville schlock, but serious, tried-and-true, capital "I" Literature. If you intend to read your way through the most macabre and bone-chilling of Holiday vigils, get in store a shelfload of works guaranteed to keep you white-knuckled, wired, and wide-eyed...
...Goiania victims in most serious condition, including Leide, were flown to a naval hospital in Rio de Janeiro. There they are being treated by a core team of eight radiation specialists, including one from the U.S. and another from the Soviet Union. Bone-marrow transplants, which were conducted on Chernobyl survivors, are not being considered. Radiation can destroy the vital marrow, which produces among other things the white blood cells that help the body guard against infection, but some of the Goiania victims are so radioactive that new bone marrow would simply become contaminated. All patients are undergoing frequent decontamination...
...each of their first two possessions, the Huskies came away with the bigger half of the 'bone. Three points the first drive, seven points the next...
Indeed, the Crimson "D" was tricked and deceived for the first five minutes of Saturday's contest, but after the coaching staff altered a couple of defensive assignments, the gridders held the 'bone in check the rest...
...took the 'bone right from under the Huskies' noses...