Word: slivered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bergman who made this movie still had akvavit in his veins. Intellect, that glittering and treacherous Snow Queen, had not yet struck her icy sliver into his heart...
Bits & Pieces. Last week, as the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology celebrated :he centennial of its founding as the Army Medical Museum, tourists still admired an Sickles' leg. They could also gape at a lock of Lincoln's hair, a bone sliver from his skull, and bullet-shattered vertebrae from Assassin John Wilkes Booth and President James A. Garfield. But pathology, the study of disease processes, has far outgrown the two rear rooms above the Riggs Bank that first housed the Army Medical Museum. The institute, which is a combined effort of all three armed forces, now serves...
Moreover, the sliver-thin Marshall atolls cannot handle the mass of instrumentation that scientists use. Most of the equipment used in the last tests in 1958 has been removed or left to rust; re-use of the sites would save neither time nor money...
...look, still so popular last year that a Texas doctor made a fortune amputating little toes, gradually gave way to a rounder toe before blunting off altogether into this year's square look. Once into the shoes, only the problem of walking on the ever-so-chic, sliver-thin heels remained. This season, a comfortable look in women's shoes emerged. The low-heeled, easy-fitting shoe is not only in: it seems to be in for the foreseeable future...
...native villages in retaliation for the burning of Portuguese plantations by guerrilla bands. With the rains due this month, the army desperately seeks a military decision but can rarely come to grips with the elusive rebels. Farther north, below the bulge of Africa, lies a 2,800-sq.-mi. sliver of Portuguese territory called Cabinda. Here the authorities recently tried to snuff out revolt by arresting all the local chiefs and every Cabindese who could read or write. Villages were put to the torch, and most of the colony's 60,000 natives fled across the border into former...