Word: skeletonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Graves Registration Service, covered by riflemen of the nearest combat unit, went out into no man's land to find the wreck. They found it-a jumble of twisted and melted metal. There were no dog tags, and nothing was left of the pilot but a charred skeleton...
...pouch. An aircraft expert combed the wreck, snipped off bits of metal bearing serial numbers. Then the party scrambled back to its own lines. By last week, the plane had been identified as a light L19 spotter, and in the G.R.S. laboratory at Kure, Japan, the pilot's skeleton had been assembled, his height determined, dental chart plotted. If the data obtained from this work checks with a name listed on a unit roster, another U.S. fighting man's name will be transferred from "missing in action" to "killed in action." In the fighting lull, the unsung...
...White mice," he explained, "had severe deformities of the brain, skull and skeleton when the mother had too little oxygen on the eighth day of pregnancy. Cleft palate was a common result of exposure on the 14th day, and a curious defect of the eye and eyelids--so-called 'open eye'--when the pregnancy had advanced to about sixteen days...
...immediate threat, are obvious. The liberal intellectuals frankly fear the militarists and think the best way to keep them from coming to power again is to keep the nation's armaments down and its foreign policy neutral. The militarists want the U.S. to give Japan the skeleton of an army, navy and air force (which the U.S. is planning to do) and then get out. Once in power, they want to be free to make their own deals with the camp they think will...
...abstract composition. In most cases, he uses conventional colors and does not try for delicate tones or nuances. His large water-color entitled "Three Fish" has a good balance of geometric shapes and is neatly drawn. A smaller "Fish," however, is much more lively because lines forming the skeleton play against lines representing turbulence in the water. The result is a fish which looks alive. Chermayeff's other fish in a large, blue water-color are quite dead and only make a pattern which would look pleasant on a bed-spread. "Breakfast at Sardi's" evokes humor and excitement. Except...