Word: skeletoned
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...skeleton staff of Crimeds saw their dauntless friends depart, and hastily prepared the biography of Dr. Hu appearing on page four...
...likes to plan domestic operations. For example, no matter where he is, he calls daughter Peggy on Christmas. Because he believes most people waste a lot of time on long-distance calls talking about unimportant things like the weather, he once prepared mimeographed sheets outlining skeleton conversations for both his end of the line and the other. But the last time he called his daughter in the U.S. from Tokyo, the conversation didn't go according to plan. Matters plainly of inconsequence drifted in from the Tokyo end. Later, Peggy found that her father, despite all his planning...
Some more recent Indians proved to have had some odd customs. While investigating village sites near the Trinity River in Texas, diggers under Robert T. Stephenson of the Smithsonian found "ceremonial pits" 90 feet across and ten feet deep. In one was the skeleton of a bear, laid out with a full ceremonial burial. Apparently the Trinity River Indians worshiped or otherwise honored bears, as did the hairy Ainu of northern Japan...
While Carroll Lowenstein and Gil O'Neil fired passes in an offensive drill, "Kermit Tracy," as simulated by jayvee back Ed Finney, aimed in the direction of a skeleton varsity defense. Finney is not so good a passer as Tracy, the Columbia quarterback, so the pass defense was not really challenged...
...reported that Wilder and Brackett started shooting "Sunset Boulevard" with only a skeleton script and improvised as they went along. The method resulted in superior photography with a sprinkling of superb touches. This free development, however, was responsible for overburdening the movie with material which detracts from the fine acting...