Word: marrowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Watchman, by Davis Grubb. A marrow-chilling tale that rages against man's cruelty and sings the praises of physical love...
...WATCHMAN, by Davis Grubb (275 pp.; Scribner; $3.95), is the latest of the author's marrow-chilling tales of good and evil, written in a style compounded of Hans Christian Andersen imaginativeness and American Gothic hyperbole. His Night of the Hunter (1954), a surefooted, poetic horror story of two children and a malevolent pursuer, was told with controlled passion. Now in The Watchman, Grubb has pulled out all the stops, piled terror on madness, disaster on helplessness. The book is a mixture of poetic rage against cruelty in man, a song in praise of physical love...
...black leaders attended and fumed. When Macleod finally gave both sides a look at his proposed compromise, they erupted. In Salisbury, Federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky, a strapping ex-boxer who speaks for the white settlers, stormed: "The vicious influence of African nationalism has apparently turned the bone marrow of many metropolitan countries to jelly. I intend to stem that tide if it is within my power." Northern Rhodesia's leading black nationalist, Kenneth Kaunda, in pressing for the black majority rule he had promised his followers back home, condemned the constitution as "British betrayal." Warned Harry Nkumbula...
...despite the blinding snow and the treacherous ice and the marrow-freezing wind, Democratic hearts stayed high. "To hell with it all," cried one celebrator. "We've elected a President!" They had indeed-and Jack Kennedy moved relentlessly through his week, seemingly never pausing even for breath and totally unfazed by the soaring confusion. He was at all times the central and dominating figure of inauguration week...
...satellite's second purpose was to help determine the effects of outer-space radiation on future astronauts. Inside the recovered capsule were human bone marrow, blood cells and tissue from the underside of a human eyelid, as well as fungus spores and algae. After analysis, the results will be compared with similar materials which were recovered from Discoverer XVII, when it was snatched in mid-air last month...