Word: skeletonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steel. The average American is awakened every morning by a steel alarm clock, hops out of a steel-springed bed, shaves himself with a steel blade, has breakfast cooked on a steel range, rides to work in a steel bus or car, works in a building whose entire skeleton is steel. Virtually every U.S. product is made of steel or from steel machinery, and 40% of all U.S. jobs depend upon steel and its users. Steel is the foundation of all U.S. military power, real and in the making. In this age of mechanized warfare, it is no longer...
This obituary is unsatisfactory in many respects. It is far more significant for what it omitted than for what it said. It is the skeleton of an argument, and as such is difficult to attack though incapable of standing by itself...
...skeleton of John Wilkes Booth...
...articles were cluttered up with swatches of pseudo-intellectual pretentiousness (e.g., a, 14-page layout entitled "What Does It Mean to Be a Man?" containing everything from Mohammed's Testament to his son-in-law to a three-layer diagram of man's body, nervous system and skeleton...
...examining the progress of leaf decay under the skeleton, botanists found how long the body had been there. Their estimate checked with that of entomologists (insect specialists). Maggotts leave eggs on their prey, and learning the age of these gave the bug men an accurate estimate of how long the young woman had been dead when found...