Word: skeletonization
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Blasted were electric power, gas, water, telephones. The toilet belched black sewage. But that day the Corbetts, millions like them in 20 cities over England, carried on. Repair crews filled the craters in the streets, restored skeleton public services. Two surgeons in Southampton's hospital performed 230 major operations in seven hours. Corbett dug a trench in his lawn, kicking himself for having laid by no gasproof room for a bomby...
...annually ministers to more than a thousand students. Not only because of the skill of the Dental School men who compose the staff, but also because of the reasonable prices, the Clinic has become popular. But the unfortunate fact is that since it is forced to operate with a skeleton staff and equipment, only about one-half of the students who apply for appointments can be treated. Last year more than a thousand men were turned away,--referred to dentists practicing in the Square, where rates are considerably higher. And this condition was by no means out of the ordinary...
This Epstein did not do. All but seven of the drawings shown were directly derived from the text, reflected its despair and horror as well as its sensuous music. Examples: Danse Macabre, a female skeleton posturing on a bed, and Flowers of Evil (see cut), which even conservative London critics, shocked again, conceded to be true to the poet...
Frantically casting off their excess burdens, the two rushed about grasping at imaginary strings. Finally the light was located, and the flood of illumination revealed to the surveyors that they had placed their binoculars on the tummy of a mummy, while the tripods stood beside a half-decomposed skeleton...
...science is that they have a unique hereditary defect of the sort which crops out occasionally in nature but which human investigators cannot produce at will. Some disturbance in the rat chromosomes (heredity carriers in the germ plasm) prevents their soft, prenatal cartilage from developing into a normal skeleton. The young appear normal for two weeks, then become bandy-legged as if suffering from rickets. Usually they die at the age of four to five weeks, with soft, collapsed ribs and emphysema of the lungs (air leakage into the spaces of the connective tissue...