Word: skeletonic
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...closings announced last week involved operating plants. Some of the facilities had not been functioning for several years and had no employees or only skeleton crews. Said Don Stazak, president of Steelworkers Local 65 in Chicago, of the doomed South Works: "In the '50s, '60s and early '70s, this place was a city within a city. There was traffic in and around the plant 24 hours a day. Workers and jobs were everywhere. Today you can walk down the inside of the plant for more than a mile and see nothing. It's a ghost town...
...plot with a devising tragedy in which the young protagonist's father and sisters are massacred by the "Black and Tans," Fools of Fortuneencompasses the sort of tragedy and desolation that might have kept Thomas Hardy going for a few hundred pages. In many respects this is the skeleton of a novel, containing the outlines of an extended tragedy but lacking the body of narrative that usually fills out Trevor's fictions so convincingly, We have, instead, scenes from a tragedy, ghostly excerpts from the history of an Anglo-Irish family...
...outlines of the remote landing strip. Suddenly flames illuminated the night sky, then gradually flickered out. On the powdery sands of Dasht-e-Kavir, Iran's Great Salt Desert, lay the burned-out hulk of a lumbering U.S. Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft. Nearby rested the scorched skeleton of a U.S. Navy RH-53 Sea Stallion helicopter. And in the wreckage were the burned bodies of eight American military air crewmen...
...other major Harvard project will expand one of the University's fastest growing divisions, the Kennedy School of Government (3). The skeleton of the Belfer Center for Public Management is complete, and construction planners expect the addition's exterior to be finished by Thanksgiving...
...Well do we know that in each of us lives a skeleton that waits for the flesh to die, there is an absence waiting for the presence to depart-but a great city! A city like Antioch! As Pilgermann the owl I fly over it now and it looks like nothing really, it has retreated from its medieval boundaries, it has shrunk and dwindled, it has huddled itself together, has drawn back from the vaunt of its greatness and the largeness of its history, it is like a swimmer who has struggled barely alive out of a raging torrent...