Word: spined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the American Legion passed a spine-tingling resolution: "In defense of all it holds sacred, the American Legion has fought in three wars-yet this was not enough. Now the world must make its bloody choice between human dignity and godless tyranny . . . In the forefront of this combat, many Legionnaires will fall. For those men who are about to die, the American Legion has dedicated itself to call for and develop, among the citizenry of our land, the leadership it will require to win this world decision...
Another patient who went to the circus instead of a cemetery is Little Joe, also eight. Within ten days, isoniazid ended his unbearable headache and loosened his stiff spine and neck. Now Little Joe is the life of the men's ward at Winslow Indian Sanatorium, first up in the morning and (complain the tired oldsters) the last to turn in at night...
...quiet hung over Paris' Museum of Modern Art one day last week when Guard Antoine Albertini heard a spine-tingling sound coming from the main gallery; he was not a nervous man, but the gallery held most of the 114 famous paintings of the "Masterpieces of the 20th Century" exhibit (TIME, June 2) and they were worth millions. Albertini cat-footed to the doorway and froze in his tracks. Visible in the glow from the windows were two men cutting masterpieces out of their frames with razors. Albertini whipped out his pistol, cried, "Haut les mains...
...woman asked him, "Please write about ridiculitis," he replied: "You have misspelled the word, which is radiculitis, but I think your spelling is just as good because I don't take much stock in there being any such thing as radiculitis" (inflammation of nerve roots in the spine). From a column devoted to dermatology: "A good friend of mine who knows as much about skin diseases as anyone in these parts says that nobody knows much about skin diseases...
...minute composition began with a spine-tingling run on the clarinet, launched into a satire of suburban domestic strife with a jazzy Greek chorus, pantomime action and modern musical effects. Lennie's libretto, in which his unhappily married couple climaxed a day of frustration by going to an escapist movie, was a little too real to be funny. One listener summed it up: "It didn't take Bernstein to show that they were mismated...