Word: sinews
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...globe of living matter. Some dive deep into the core, where < they give rise to the intestinal tract. Others bunch along the surface, forming a hollow tube -- one end of which buds into a brain. Somehow every cell knows its place and fulfills its destinyas heart, bone, blood and sinew weave together into a single, organic whole...
...Iceman was well prepared for the Alpine chill. His basic garment was an unlined fur robe made of patches of deer, chamois and ibex skin. Though badly repaired at many points, the robe had been cleverly whipstitched together with threads of sinew or plant fiber, in what appears to be a mosaic-like pattern, belying the popular image of cavemen in crude skins. "The person who made the clothes initially was obviously skilled. This indicates that the Iceman was in some way integrated into a community," says prehistorian Egg, who is restoring the clothes at the Roman-Germanic Central Museum...
...shooting -- with flint points and feathers. The feathers had been affixed with a resin-like glue at an angle that would cause spin in flight and help maintain a true course. "It is significant that ballistic principles were known and applied," says Notdurfter. The quiver also held an untreated sinew that could be made into a bowstring; a ball of fibrous cord; the thorn of a deer's antler, which could be used to skin an animal; and four antler tips, tied together with grass...
...record had stood unapproachably majestic for 23 years, a distance of 29 ft. 2 1/2 in., about the length of a medium-size truck, easily traversed by a motorcycle daredevil propelled off a ramp -- but not by unaided tendon, sinew, flesh and blood. Only a few dared to challenge the long-jump record -- the oldest and most awesome in track and field -- set in 1968 when the American Bob Beamon flung himself through the thin Olympic air of high-altitude Mexico City, spanning a gap no man had crossed before...