Word: rib
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tumble Down. Ninety minutes later, in high elation, they started down. Nightfall pinned them on an icy hogback. Broennimann slipped, the rope which tied him to Marx spun out and then broke, and he tumbled 100 ft. to fetch up in soft snow with a broken rib. In darkness, his feet beginning to freeze, he got back to high camp, where Marx rejoined...
Through the tense months Anne kept firm hold of her sense of humor. When Mrs. van Daan appeared with an injured rib, Anne wrote: "That's what happens to elderly ladies who do such idiotic exercises to reduce their large behinds." When Dentist Dussel went to work on Mrs. van Daan's molars, Anne was gleefully reminded of "a picture from the Middle Ages entitled 'A Quack at Work.' " But she could make fun of herself too: her beloved diary she called "the unbosomings of an ugly duckling...
...Marrying Kind a new comedy by Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin (the authors of Adam's Rib and Born Yesterday) describes what happens when one dumb blond meets another dumb blonde one afternoon in Central Park marries her and begins life a new in a New York City apartment...
Under OPS's complicated cutting regulations, cheating is made easy. The rib and the short plate of a steer, for example, are contiguous parts of the animal. But under OPS ceilings, prime rib wholesales for more than double the price of short plate. Thus, butchers who want to cheat merely cut the rib big, the plate small. Another dodge: meat packers are allowed a certain shrinkage in cooling their meat, but it is a simple matter to claim more shrinkage than actually occurs. It is just as simple to rejuggle the books to bring purchase prices down with little...
...constantly referred to as the "collitch kid" and the well-read foreman began to rib O'Neil for his part in Crimson football fortunes. The boss finally decided that gridiron reversal contributed to making O'Neil a poor worker, so he made a threat...