Word: boned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appears less interested in being funny than in offering criticism of a society that is long since dead and at least as immune to his sallies as a modern audience is likely to be. He seems to have confused irreverence with irrelevance and entirely lost touch with his funny bone...
Meanwhile South House wrapped up the other title Tuesday putting away previously unbeaten Eliot. 7-0. A 40-yard pass from Walter Paulsen to Tommy Kardish gave Soho the only points it needed in House football's most brutal game this year. Paulsen suffered a broken collar bone, while the Eliot team suffered one broken leg two broken ankles two concussions and one broken...
Back in Africa, Milingo began praying for cures of ailing supplicants, and soon hundreds were reporting miracles. One American nun, Frances Randall, a psychology lecturer in Nairobi, says she was cured of a painful broken coccyx bone. Cure-seekers streamed to Lusaka from across Africa, and Milingo healed others in the U.S. and Europe. When he attended an African bishops' conference, the sick congregated outside the hall...
...classic encounter. Restless, acquisitive men of iron, canvas and hemp confronted a communal society of bone, skins and thong. The outcome, too, was familiar. Skilled at catching birds in nets, the Inuit themselves were about to be scooped up in the cash nexus. A hitherto unknown clock was imposed on the culture, and its days were numbered...
...Astronaut Jack Swigert, 51, has once before survived the icy chill of near tragedy. On his 1970 Apollo 13 journey to the moon, an oxygen tank exploded, prompting a harrowing 3½-day journey back to earth. Now Swigert is undertaking another tense battle. He has learned he has bone-marrow cancer. The Republican candidate in next month's election for a newly created congressional district in suburban Denver, Swigert decided that he would keep on with the race and that he would not keep quiet about the disease. Says he: "We have 3 million people in this country...