Word: boned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other's nature. "I wish and ask that our rulers who have Jewish subjects exercise a sharp mercy toward these wretched people," wrote Luther in 1543. "They must act like a good physician who, when gangrene has set in, proceeds without mercy to cut, saw and burn flesh, veins, bone and marrow." His harsh prescription was an unwitting forecast of the horror that was to come...
That was two years ago. In the course of his humor counseling since, he has tried to find a funny bone in the Internal Revenue Service, the San Francisco police department, the board of directors of the California Business Bank, any number of software manufacturers in Silicon Valley, the University of Santa Clara business school, a group of Navy missile engineers and the National Conference of State Legislatures, all of which have paid hundreds of dollars to hear him out. Though Kushner has had to shore up his income by writing for legal newspapers, his oddball calling just now appears...
...Cambridge residents void complaints against the Harvard force Police Chief Johnson told the Cambridge City Council last year and had reiterated this year that if anyone has bone to pick, his "door is always open. But Johnson may have to install swinging doors and borrow extra time to field the complaints in addition to his normal duties. An established review board would be much more practice than informal meetings with the Police Chief for addressing citizen concerns Powerful public agencies like the police need surefire checks and balances, now isolated protestations of concern...
...Radcliffe president suffered multiple fractures of the femur (upper leg bone) while getting out of car at Logan Airport...
...escape to life, let them taste their new world, then watch them scurry back to the comfortable and familiar. His comedy would be cruel if Brooks were not so good at playing the victims he concocts: so pompously thrilled as he rationalizes their lurches off the beaten track, so bone scared when things go awry. In Hagerty and Garry Marshall, the TV mastermind who plays a casino boss, he has glorious foils. Lost in America does not conclude; it merely ends, as if Brooks had run out of money or inspiration before he could think up a third...