Word: marrows
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...cave that was really worse than death. Further study of the skeletons confirmed the suspicion. Each shapely skull had a hole in it, and conical stone axheads found in the debris fitted the holes exactly. Most of the larger arm and leg bones had been broken to extract the marrow. That settled it. The 40 lovely girls, agreed learned Bambergers, had been eaten in the cave...
...dangerous animals. Among them slunk the weak humanoids, armed with the first of the weapons that man had created. Perhaps they killed a few of the animals. Perhaps, like hyenas, they scavenged the kills of the powerful carnivora, using their fist-axes to crack the bones for the marrow inside...
...have much of their tremendous original energy. The heavier ones, as yet ungentled by^ the atmosphere, says German Biophysicist Hermann J. Schaeffer, can plow with destructive force straight through a plane's fuselage and on through the human body. An hour's exposure might permanently damage bone marrow and reproductive organs...
...fever), typhus and some kinds of pneumonia, it had been given to about 8,000,000 patients since it was first marketed in 1949. Then it was found (TIME, July 14) that some patients who had been getting the drug had died of aplastic anemia (in which the bone marrow is unable to do its normal job of making red and white blood cells...
...sickly, intense peasant's son who moved from the feet of Philippine Socialist Pedro Abad Santos into the more militant ways of the Communists, Luis Taruc had received none of the marrow-deep Marxist schooling characteristic of the usual Red guerrilla leader. But he had proclaimed loud & often his devotion to Soviet Russia and the Communist ideology...