Word: skeletonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nonetheless, Lorjou had followed Picasso's symbolism, while challenging him in treatment. Like Guernica, Lorjou's Atomic Age features a horse and a bull; but while Picasso's horse writhes wounded, Lorjou's flies above the scene, whipped on by a skeleton. And while Picasso's bull stands threatening, Lorjou's is decapitated; the head sleeps on a striped pedestal, a plucked rooster between its horns. "Both Picasso and I," Lorjou explains, "went to the same source-Spain...
During World War II, Cronin was direction of Civilian Defense but, despite elaborate preparations, not a bomber came in sight. In October 1948, City Manager John B. Atkinson asked him to reactivate a skeleton force of 150 key men from World...
...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...