Word: boned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Naggling ailments continue to nip at the necks and heels of number three Chip Robie and five Charlie Duffy. Although both will play today. Robie is nursing a strep throat while Duffy is treading gingerly with a bone bruise on his left foot...
DIED. Samuel Rosen, 84, world-renowned ear surgeon who developed a revolutionary operation for curing otosclerosis, a common cause of deafness; of a blood clot; in Peking. He discovered the technique during an operation in 1952 when he accidentally jarred loose a tiny bone in the middle ear, immediately restoring the patient's hearing. After perfecting the procedure on hundreds of cadavers, he taught the operation all over the world, becoming a frequent visitor to China in the process...
...WIFE, Linda, participates unconsciously in perpetuating Willy's delusions; she pretends not to know his salary has been slashed to the bone and that he borrows money from a friend each week to bring her a "salary." She does not confront him with the rubber pipe he hides in the basement and doesn't tell him she knows he wants to kill himself with it. Linda chastizes ungrateful Biff when he rebels; he is trying to shake off the chains of his father's beliefs about him. "You wretch! You don't know, but I'll tell you! That...
Paleontologists, of course, tend to relish arguing about bones as much as digging them up. But after much debate, most now agree that a Brontosaurus head should not be the familiar, friendly snub-nosed skull of children's books and TV's Flintstones, but rather a much more elongated, toothy and reptilian-looking skull. Yale's correction, to be sure, is a little tardy. Pittsburgh's Carnegie Museum and the Field Museum in Chicago have already changed their Brontosaurus heads. What makes the Peabody's fossil surgery so interesting is that the original foul...
...rattling of Yale's skull and bone does not settle such lingering questions a what killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago and whether they were warm blooded or cold. Yet even the most trivia news from the dinosaur world seems to hold everybody in thrall. Adds Yale Pale ontologist John Ostrom: ''It's good busines for the museum and for Yale...