Word: spined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taut-nerved, physically unstable young woman who lived on work had nothing to do. There were tests for various pictures. Nothing came of them. Miss Garson sank into that terrifying limbo, known to many Hollywood newcomers, of the regularly paid, politely Forgotten Woman. Years before, she had injured her spine. It began to hurt her again. She wore one thick and one thin-soled shoe, hobbled like a crone, went outdoors only at night. For months, she says, "My only screen tests were X rays; my best parts, the spine." Doctors advised an "intricate operation...
...asked for every test M.G.M. had ever made, and for the first time became aware of Greer Garson. She was it. They would go to London at once for the shooting. Greer took the part chiefly in order to get away from Hollywood and back to England. Her spine has not troubled her since...
...nearest pupil and by gesture and innuendo, if not by edict, conveyed to the class the idea that Johnny was ostracized. This technique worked beautifully. Johnny too got the idea. They were against him. Ergo, he was against them. So he stabbed the leader of the class in the spine. ... A simple technique is to call the child a name. Willie, a 'sensitive' child, used to smoke during recess. Teacher . . . came up with this interesting bit of logic: Smoking is against the rules; hence the smoker is against the rules; hence he is antisocial, antigovernment, anti-American...
...exceptionally well-chosen omnibus of short spine-tinglers, with an urbane and knowledgeable introductory essay...
...youngest, most talkative, most engaging U.S. Army major that the good people of northeast Mississippi had ever seen. Above his officer's pinks and forest-green shirt he wore the most dazzling decorations (the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Purple Heart). He had lived through the most spine-tingling experiences imaginable, on all possible battlefronts (strafing Nazi tanks in North Africa, being rescued by the French underground after a crash landing in occupied Europe, shooting it out with Jap Zeros over the South Pacific). When red-haired young Holdeman spoke at war-bond rallies in Booneville, Tupelo, Okolona...