Word: boner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boner. In Vancouver, Wash., Leon Hutcheson, in bed with a broken leg, tried to move it, placed his good leg under the heavy cast, used it as a lever, broke...
Wave of Indecision. In Washington, Lieut. Commander Bernice Boner decided to end it all, jumped from a 90-ft. Potomac bridge, changed her mind in midair, was glad she could swim so well...
...major corporation smart enough to operate one of the Oak Ridge atom plants and with a large legal department (not to mention outside counsel paid an annual retainer of $30,000), this was a major boner. Only five days before, the U.S. Treasury had announced that the difference between the market and option price of stocks sold to employes will be taxed as income. (Previously there was no tax on exercising options, only the capital gains tax on resale.) The ruling was based on a Supreme Court decision handed down, effective Feb. 25, 1945, on that date. Up till then...
...worst boner dates also from his League days when, involuntarily prophetic, he spoke of a "pact of nonassistance and mutual aggression...
...Boner. In Salt Lake City, Utah University Student Donald Williams' pup followed him to school one day, was found by aghast professors asleep outside the geology department, blissfully nuzzling a rare, well-gnawed, prehistoric bone from the university's much-prized collection...