Word: skeletonization
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With only a skeleton staff promising to be on hand, the Council has formulated a "carry on" policy, under which they will attempt to deal only with specific problems as they arise. O'Donnell said, however, that the General Education Committee would continue to function...
Last week the national failure was a fact, and its anatomy was as open to inspection as a skeleton in a museum...
...flick of John L. Lewis' shaggy black brows. In 23 states, 400,000 miners simply stayed home to spade their gardens, wet a line in a good sucker stream or sit back and warm a well-calloused toe on the kitchen stove. Mine operators sent all but a skeleton force of supervisors home...
...withstand an atomic bomb. The prospect was not pleasing. Experts, including leaders of the Manhattan Project, believed that buildings of timber or brick would be smashed or burned. Manhattan's stockiest skyscrapers might stand up, but many of their light "curtain walls" would be swept away, leaving only skeleton steel. In downtown New York, a single up-to-date bomb might kill a million people. Some might live for a while, eventually die by inches. Few U.S. buildings could give protection from the stealthy gamma rays...
...built a practical radio as small as a wristwatch.* But last week, a National Bureau of Standards physicist announced that scientists had come close. A tiny new "skeleton" set, no bigger than a pack of cigarets, could be hidden in the palm of one hand, said...