Word: skeletonic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Class of '33, first to spend its freshman year in the Yard, turned out for the largest reunion in College history, and got a special treat. Its members saw the first public exhibition of the Kronosaurus sea monster, skeleton of what was once the largest flesh-eating reptile in the ocean. There were also cocktails, a day at the Essex County Club, panels on education, and the Yale baseball game...
...than it has elsewhere. When Socialist Guy Mollet became Premier in 1956, he appointed as Minister of Overseas Territories the far-sighted mayor of Marseilles, Gaston Defferre. While his colleagues busied themselves with a disastrous Algerian policy that eventually led to rebellion, Defferre drafted a really effective loi-cadre (skeleton law) for French West Africa. Though the chief executive of each territory was to be a Paris-appointed premier, responsible for defense and foreign relations, the domestic power was placed in the hands of elected assemblies, which choose their own cabinet ministers to tax and run each country. Over...
From the family closet of Republican Attorney General William Pierce Rogers came a political skeleton: daughter Dale, 21, a senior at Cornell University, is a registered Democrat. Said her mother, in a ragged defense: "When politics comes up at home, she is pretty much...
...from bed in a blink. In a coal seam 600 ft. under the village, a miner's torch had lighted an ancient white bone. Down in the depths Hurzeler dug farther with trembling care. Last week he ended a nine-year treasure hunt, exhumed the first complete fossil skeleton of an Oreopithecus ("mountain ape"). The age of the coal: 10 million years...
...instead of pointed; the jawbone had a hole for a nerve passage which is characteristic of humans. But the evidence still seemed scanty to U.S. scientists. To expand it, Hurzeler set out 28 months ago, with backing from Manhattan's Wenner-Gren Foundation, to find an entire Oreopithecus skeleton, came to be called "keeper of the abominable coal man" by weary friends...