Word: skeletonic
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Though their candidate finished third and was struggling to reach the five-per-cent he needed for federal matching funds, Anderson's Boston supporters seemed relaxed and considerably more enthusiastic than the skeleton crew at Carter's headquarters...
...people see you're involved, and they have a tendency to get into the act themselves." True enough, if the neighborhood searches conducted by residents over the weekends are any indication. More than 600 people took part in the first one, on Oct. 18, which found the skeleton of a seven-year-old victim...
...THINKS Thoreau, he's sort of a fraud," the press agent says over the phone. Here's a spark of interest--after all, Henry David shows up about 36 inches into the Five Foot Shelf of Books. And now someone's gotten the goods on him, found some grinning skeleton of Piltdown Man in the closet of his rude cabin. Okay, so send the book...
...whooshing, as a ghostly chorus of deep Bowie-voices echoes every word and moan. A song like this suggests Bowie is not at all rootless, but almost pathological in his self-inspection, picking through the bones of his past work in a frantic attempt to piece together his own skeleton...
Even if the Selective Service System (SSS)-- which currently sports a "skeleton crew" of 100 employees nationwide--can gear up to carry out nationwide mail registration, its problems would be far from over. "Implicit in the president's post office plan is that the registrants will keep the SSS informed of their whereabouts," Mills points out. "Anyone who thinks that 19-and 20-year-olds will stop to fill out a 'change of address' form has his head in the sand," he adds...