Word: skeletonized
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Kagan’s success at poaching professors from other schools left the Law School's student newspaper guessing at other things she might be able to steal for Harvard's gain: a ferris wheel, the John Hancock building, and a T-Rex skeleton...
...more modern times, people have searched for evidence of unicorns, or in its absence, fabricated their own. Most notably was the hulking, alien-looking skeleton fabricated by a German scholar in 1663. In the 1930s, an arguably mad scientist from Maine manipulated the horns of a calf so that they grew entwined as one, proving, at least in theory that unicorns could exist - sort of. Not to be outdone, Barnum and Bailey managed to fuse the two horns of a white goat, named Lancelot, to the glee of fans throughout the 1980s...
...characters, and also a shameless copyright bully, who has brought charges against one of her biggest fans, Steven Vander Ark, for his plans to publish a Harry Potter lexicon. By the standard of Rowling’s complaint, Joseph Campbell could not have published the invaluable “Skeleton Key to Finnegan’s Wake” five years after Joyce published his masterwork. The “act for the encouragement of learning” is being used to empower an author to censor an unapproved explication of her works...
...Moloch!” cries Ginsberg. “Moloch! Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible madhouses! monstrous bombs!” A sphinx of cement and aluminum...
...propensity for kidnapping work days and undermining productivity. Technically, a work day taken off to bridge a holiday to a weekend qualifies as an absence or vacation day. But over the decades ponts have become a kind of de facto entitlement. Since most businesses are reduced to skeleton staffs during such periods, bosses long ago decided to give in, close shop and enjoy the extra time off along with everyone else...