Word: boned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Working with beagles for three years, Jeffcoat and Ray Williams, assistant professor of Periodontology at the Dental School, found that dogs who received tetracycline have a slower rate of bone loss than those who did not receive the drug...
Periodontal disease is a bacterial infection of the gum that destroys the tissue and bone that support the teeth. Tetracycline concentrates in the pockets between the gums and teeth and slows the rate of bone loss, Jeffcoat said...
...tasks of the specialty units are thankless. Sprinting headlong down the field to make bone-jarring tackles on kick returns, trying to spring for a long gainer on a return, trotting onto the turf to boot what everyone assumes to be an automatic point after touchdown, punting the ball in gray New England--these are not the things that make the headlines...
...Reagan had run a bumbling campaign; one grumbled that if Bush had been the nominee, he would have been leading in the polls by 20 points. But Bush praised Reagan warmly to the end, telling one audience in Pittsburgh's black ghetto that "there is not a bigoted bone in Ronald Reagan's body...
...months to run. But finally, the hundreds of days dwindled down to a precious one. As the shadow of night retreated westward across the continent, Americans awoke on Tuesday to an unfamiliar sound: silence. The speeches had all been made, the plans and programs all recited. Hoarse and bone-weary, candidates for office at every level hauled themselves out of bed; principals in the long drama, they now could merely join the audience for the final act of voting...