Word: boning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Proctor, are drinking in Zeke's smokehouse as Ned nerves himself to propose marriage to Zeke?s daughter Jewel. Ned stands up too quickly and bumps into a freshly butchered pig. 'The sight of Ned smacking himself with a slab of shoat struck Zeke as hilarious . . . Zeke's funny bone was easily tickled, and when he had downed a quart or two of whiskey, he found plenty to laugh about.' Yee-haw. "If Noel Coward could have written such scenes," notes Skow, "he might have made something of himself...
...Proctor, are drinking in Zeke's smokehouse as Ned nerves himself to propose marriage to Zeke?s daughter Jewel. Ned stands up too quickly and bumps into a freshly butchered pig. 'The sight of Ned smacking himself with a slab of shoat struck Zeke as hilarious . . . Zeke's funny bone was easily tickled, and when he had downed a quart or two of whiskey, he found plenty to laugh about.' Yee-haw. "If Noel Coward could have written such scenes," notes Skow, "he might have made something of himself...
Alas, nothing is perfect. Applications for FOP leaders are due today and I am reminded of a bone I've had to pick with the group since I applied to participate in FOP almost two years ago. That bone is that I had to apply at all. While approximately 600 members of an incoming class fill out a lengthy application to go on FOP, only half that number is admitted...
DIED. PAUL TSONGAS, 55, former U.S. Senator and presidential candidate; of pneumonia contracted after liver surgery on Jan. 10; in Boston. In 1983 Tsongas was found to have lymphoma, but it was successfully treated, and at his death there was no sign that it had returned. However, bone-marrow transplants he received contributed to liver problems, requiring the operation. A Democrat, Tsongas served two terms in the House, and was elected to the Senate from Massachusetts in 1978, but he decided to serve only one term because of his illness. With the cancer under control, he ran for President...
DIED. CARL SAGAN, 62, scientist and eloquent popularizer of astronomy whose lectures, books and TV appearances brought the majesty of the universe to ordinary earthlings; of pneumonia after a two-year battle with bone-marrow disease; in Seattle. Sagan's mantra of "billions and billions" of stars from his award-winning 1980 PBS series Cosmos became both the object of parody and popular shorthand for the vastness of the universe. The show attracted a global audience of more than 500 million people in 60 countries. A prolific writer, Sagan won a Pulitzer Prize in 1978 for The Dragons of Eden...