Word: spined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pulled myself up and looked at the Eagle, 200 yards away. She was lying on her side. Down the great red expanse of her underside, men were sliding into the sea. Suddenly I felt a shock at the base of my spine. I knew it was a depth charge from a destroyer hunting the U-boat." Clinging to the float with other survivors, Thorpe watched the stricken Eagle go. "A rumbling as the sea poured relentlessly into the vessel . . . a flurry of white foam. It subsided and she was gone." A destroyer's crew plucked Thorpe...
...only 5,000 men. Hitch in this logical suggestion is that there is still no way to make sure that the disemployed gold miners would stop off at Butte instead of drifting on to West Coast shipyards. Nor is there as yet any national service law to stiffen the spine of Paul McNutt's War Manpower Commission to the point of freezing labor in strategic jobs. And-Washington being Washington-there is little or no hope of getting such unpopular legislation on the books until after the elections are over...
Rheumatoid arthritis usually begins at the extremities, often moves joint by joint from the fingers toward the shoulder. Its pains often migrate at random. Osteoarthritis affects the weight-bearing joints in the spine, hips, knees, and the first joints of the fingers. Its pains are always localized. Rheumatoid sufferers, unlike the osteoarthritics, are usually undernourished, anemic and slightly feverish...
When men grow "corporations" and women develop "middle-age spread," the spine simply is becoming tired of "supporting in an erect position the body that was intended to go on all fours," writes Marion Dixon...
This new type of war film is drama that speaks for itself. Whenever the script tries to compete with the action photography there is a momentary embarrassment that is meant to send tingles up and down your spine. You'll squirm through some of the dialogue, but it will be well worth it to see the action...