Word: boning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. MICHELLE CAREW, 18, daughter of baseball great Rod Carew; of leukemia; in Orange County, California. The search for bone-marrow donors turned her father into an advocate for transplant candidates, and her plight drew national attention to minority and biracial patients...
HOSPITALIZED. PAUL TSONGAS, 55, ex-Oval Office seeker; for a bone-marrow transplant from his sister to fight infections brought on by his lymph cancer, now in remission; in Boston...
...extermination of European Jewry was not carried out entirely by Germans alone, however, and so the blame must be shared by the Poles, Croats, Ukrainians, French, Italians and many others who had one bone or another to pick with their Jewish neighbors. Each of these societies played eager and willing roles as Nazi accomplices. There are innumerable documented instances of each of the European countries outdoing the shameless acts of their German counterparts in the level of barbarism and cruelty with which they treated the Jewish citizens of their countries. For the countries of the time, it was a question...
...does not take long for Girl 6's friend, Jimmy (Spike Lee), to recognize that her success in the "phone bone" business only hides her real need to achieve her ambition. While working to build other people's fantasies, her own dreams begin crashing down around her. Even her ex-husband (Isaiah Washington), a kleptomaniac with a penchant for fresh produce, while attracted to her new confidence, is alienated by her increasing obsession with...
...realization that I had prostate cancer," he recalls. "I'd gotten over the 'Why me?' and spoken to a number of friends who had had successful surgery. That's where I was going to make my stand." Now what? Searching for an answer, he scheduled a bone-marrow test at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston to determine if the cancer had spread to his bones. If it had, his life expectancy would be measured in months, and he was hardly sanguine about the outcome. "I had not been successful in one test I'd taken," he recalls. "Every test...