Word: skeletonic
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Radcliffe, Wellesley, Sargent, Simmons, of all, are now operating on a skeleton force. And as the first honor graduate of Harvard Medical once remarked. "You learn nothing from operating on a skeleton...
...drive truckloads of parts through the foremen's lines. So the company brought them in by boxcar and the C.I.O. workers helped unload them. Then Teamster Boss Dan Tobin told the teamsters to go through the lines. Student foremen and nonstriking supervisors worked 14 hours on the skeleton supervisory force. Some F.A.A. members of the 3,800 who had walked out went tack to work. Help also came from U.A.W. shop stewards. They knew that U.A.W. members could not afford to be laid off. And Ford had promised to keep running only if production remained high enough...
...loan to keep operating. Martin emphasized that modern planes can't be built on a shoestring basis. Said he: "National defense needs have advanced to a supertechnical stage which makes it impractical and unrealistic, if not impossible, to carry out the Government's past policy of a skeleton peacetime military organization...
...many a Porteño, futbol is indispensable Sunday afternoon entertainment. But last Sunday, football, along with all other sports events, was canceled. Argentina was in the midst of its first general census in 33 years. Business closed down, and only essential services were maintained, with skeleton staffs. By presidential decree, all heads of families had to stay home until the census-takers came around...
...committee issued an appeal for all men who served on the temporary Album committee to come out for the new staff. Said Regal, "On a temporary basis we have been able to organize only a skeleton framework of a staff. We invite any Class member to contribute his talent...