Word: skeletonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last three of the Center's nine semi-secret government projects are due to be completed this summer after which the Center will operate with a skeleton staff. Contracts have been completed with the Air Force, the Army's Munitions Board, the Commerce Department, and the Office of Defense Mobilization...
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Asked the Atlanta Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill: "Why did he have to do it Saturday night?" For newspapermen, President Truman could hardly have picked a worse time to announce he would not run again (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Many dailies had only the usual weekend skeleton crews on hand to handle one of the biggest political stories of the year, and their presses had already rolled off a big chunk of their fat Sunday editions when the big news came through. Most had been decoyed into a false security by an advance text of Truman's speech sent...
Instead, Rashomon portrays an incident subjectively, not through the eyes of one character, but through the eyes of each of those who took part in it. Set in 13th century Japan, the skeleton story concerns a bandit's attack on a man and his wife, the robbery and murder of the husband, and the rape of the woman. In Rashomon, this story is told four times--by the bandit, the man, the woman, and a hidden spectator. The teller's shame and conceit color each account, so that four completely different stories emerge, with only the barest similarity between them...
...Skeleton News. Plastic skulls and skeletons for laboratory use are being turned out by three doctors in Gatesville, Texas. The plastic bones are about the same color and texture as the real thing. Retail price: skulls $60, skeletons...