Word: skeletonization
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...Cresta is ... for skeleton toboggans and nothing else. The idea that it is straight [TIME, Jan. 7] is erroneous. There are I think at least eleven quite serious corners called "banks." I have not been over all of them but I should have thought "Battledore" and "Shuttlecock" had almost an international reputation for collecting casualties...
Last week, as the 36th Division, built on a skeleton of Texas National Guardsmen, held a reunion in Brownwood, Tex., the men who still remembered the frightful days at the Rapido did what they always promised they would do. They demanded that Congress investigate the "colossal blunder [and] take the necessary steps to correct a military system that will permit an inefficient and inexperienced officer, such as General Mark W. Clark ... to destroy the young manhood of this country." Said one company commander: "I had 184 men . . . 48 hours later I had 17. If that's not mass murder...
Ancient man's evolution into a creature standing on two legs modified his skeleton as well as his habits. The spine curved and grew longer; the ilia or wings of the pelvis flattened out; the last vertebrae became a flexible lever on which the body's weight was poised. But nature added no new muscles to support the upright...
...really neither Chinese nor combat nor command. At its top was a red-faced, outspoken, thoroughly able U.S. field officer-Major General Robert Battery McClure, 49, native of Georgia and veteran of Guadalcanal. Under him, from brigadier generals to buck privates, a few thousand U.S. soldiers formed an advisory skeleton within China's new army...
...Face of Central Europe. Prater Violet stems straight from Author Isherwood's knowledge of Hollywood, Continental Europe and Britain-in fact, he presents himself as one of Prater Violet's principal characters. Grim skeleton of his novel-as well as its basic irony-is the filming by British Imperial Bulldog Pictures of a tear-jerker operetta about old Vienna named "Prater Violet"-just on the eve of Dictator Dollfuss' putsch to power. For the script of Prater Violet, Bulldog's President Chatsworth hires Christopher Isherwood, who knows Berlin ("Berlin ['s] . . . pretty much the same kind...