Word: skeletons
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...familiar ones scrawled across the wall of the former U.S. embassy. The pine-shaded, 27-acre compound has been occupied since the early '80s by Revolutionary Guards, who use part of it as a high school. Next to a mural of the Statue of Liberty, styled as a ghoulish skeleton, is the freshly painted warning: WE WILL MAKE AMERICA FACE A SEVERE DEFEAT...
...charred skeleton of the bus, which was completely gutted by the fire, was towed away a little over an hour after the fire started...
...section. It shows a hell of a lot of moxie to be lying split open on an operating table on a night when the hospital's monitoring equipment will probably shut down thanks to the Y2K computer crash, while you're at the mercy of a skeleton crew of probationary interns who are so low in the hospital pecking order that they're working the millennial New Year's Eve shift...
...Human Body: seven consecutive pages of transparencies, each devoted to a different organic system. Page 1's skin'n'hair'n'nails fit neatly over Page 2's spindly circulation road map which in turn lay on Page 3's inexplicably adipose-yellow GI tracts or Halloween skeleton man, and so on. At a glance, you saw and saw through man instantly, as through, yes, X-ray specs, a three-dimensional simultaneity of vision and understanding...
...nation's history, it created a media frenzy and massive traffic jams, including a backup on Florida's Interstate 10 that stretched 200 miles. Walt Disney World, near Orlando, failed to open for the first time in its history. At the Kennedy Space Center on Cape Canaveral, only a skeleton crew of volunteers was left behind to watch over launch pads and hangared space shuttles, each worth a couple of billion dollars...