Word: rib
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stiff plastic boots that protect the ankles, and bindings that release under bone-breaking tensions, such injuries make up only 16% of the total. "The reduction in leg injuries has been bought at the expense of the arm and torso," the doctors say. Twelve years ago, sprained and broken ribs, arms and shoulders were relatively rare among skiers. Since then, sprains have increased fourfold. Arm and shoulder breaks have gone up by a factor of three, rib breaks by a factor of ten. Obviously, the force of a fall once absorbed by the legs is now being taken...
...depends on a skilled corps of servants. Eaton Place may be home to the Bellamys, but it belongs to their servants: Mr. Hudson, Mrs. Bridges, Footman Edward and, of course, Rose, whom Actress Jean Marsh has made into the most fetching cockney sparrow since George Bernard Shaw detached a rib called Eliza Doolittle...
...William Manchester, the son of a Massachusetts social worker, was ten years old. Boys five years older than he were earning $2.78 a week in the sweatshops of Brooklyn, as Manchester might already have learned. (Even at ten he was a compulsive newspaper reader.) But then prime rib roast cost only 21? per lb., and young Manchester could buy a ticket to see Jackie Cooper in the "talkie" When a Feller Needs a Friend for 10?. The real trouble was that 28% of all Americans had no income...
...Adam's Rib, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 8-10, 7:30 and 11:15 (no late show Sunday); Pat and Mike...
...just out side Issaqua, Wash., and so, on the opening day of the hunting season this month, he headed there again. Walking back to his Jeep after scouting the bushes, Hammons spotted what he thought was a human skull lying on the ground. Near by was a section of rib cage and part of an arm. When a passer by heard about the bones and insisted that they must be from an animal, Hammons returned with him for a second look. "On the way back we found the clump of long black hair," said Hammons later. "It looked fresh...