Word: boned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hyde Amendment is a bone to pro-life activists who seek a constitutional ban on abortion. But legalized abortion is the law of the land and so long as it is the right of some citizens, it should be the right...
...tens of millions of Americans who suffer sporadic or chronic backaches spent some $5 billion last year for treatments, ranging from surgery to bone-rattling manipulations. Many people will try almost anything to get relief. They will hang upside down, or turn to acupuncture and electric stimulation. Some sufferers have invested in sandals covered with tiny bumps designed to massage the nerves in their feet as a way of easing back pain...
...swallowed in pill form, the drug does help add weight, but there is no conclusive medical proof that it increases strength. The evidence is mounting, however, that steroids' often irreversible side effects include kidney, liver and heart failure, and increased vulnerability to cancer. Adolescent users can suffer crippling bone stunting and arrested sexual development. In women, steroids can lead to facial hair and deeper voices. In men, there is a danger of sterility or impotence. "Male athletes who use it take the chance of becoming eunuchs," says Dr. Robert Dugal, who runs a Montreal drug-testing...
DIED. Frank Reynolds, 59, scrupulous, committed anchorman of ABC's World News Tonight; of viral hepatitis complicated by bone cancer; in Washington. A veteran of Chicago's competitive local journalism, Reynolds joined ABC in 1965 and covered the White House and other major beats before co-anchoring the evening news from 1968 to 1970, returning to that chair again in 1978. Widely respected by colleagues for his honesty, fairness and rectitude, he often brought an emotional edge to his work: showing pain at the assassination of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and sudden rage when he received conflicting reports...
...suggestion it is clear that Reynolds was a celebrity--someone people identified with recognized, cared for and were willing to allow into their homes on a nightly basis, usually at the family dinner hour. Yet following his sudden death last week after an intensive hour with hepatitis and bone cancer, there is no evidence to suggest that Reynolds will receive anything similar to the we won't let you die in our hearts treatment accorded countless others with star status...