Word: skeletonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Council chambers had a limp quietness about them on that fateful day; only a few scattered, dozing spectators were present, and City Hall staffers were on summer vacation with only a skeleton crew to carry...
...home. Then come the hijacking sharks. At first the old man kills them as they come in to attack his catch; then, his harpoon lost in one, his knife broken off in another, he gives in to the inevitable. What he brings in before dawn is a stripped skeleton, 18 feet long, which astonishes all who see it when day breaks. Wearily the old man asks himself what beat him out there. He answers himself aloud: "Nothing, I went out too far." But already he and the boy are planning to go out again...
...paid for his courage. After eleven years in Nazi concentration camps, Schumacher was a walking skeleton, his heart weakened, his eyesight half gone. Suffering lent him stature and magnified his will. To this gaunt, bitter man with the eyes of a Savonarola and a voice not unlike Hitler's, German Socialists rallied in the postwar gloom...
...trucks, 350 tractors and 80 power shovels, etc., have a replacement value of $20 million. He kept a big staff of specialists and workers, including more than 100 engineers under Vice President and Right-Hand-Man Walter Scott; unlike many others he did not pare down to skeleton size between jobs. Result: he got many new ones because he was the only man fully equipped to take them on. He helped build highways in California and Kansas and the big dams through the Missouri Valley. His firm's working capital grew to more than $20 million, his payroll...
...used to politics. And Pennsylvania politics have held the nation's horrified eye for 100 years because so little is concealed from the public view. In Pennsylvania the political backrooms have picture windows. Politicians let down their hair (if any) in front of reporters. Pennsylvania politics wears its skeleton outside its body, like a crab...