Word: spined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...insists on going over every inch of the way; and the lovers, both of whom are understandably suspect, become understandably and loquaciously suspicious of each other. The whole thing is blameless enough. But it remains a terribly staid, genteel British whodunit that almost never sets the brain aracing, the spine atingle or the mouth agape...
French Backbone. Last week I drove into the delta country. The spine of the new defense is a road, railway and power line running straight from Hanoi to Haiphong. Small crossroads, sticking out like ribs, are nodal points at which the French concentrate their mobile reserves ready to put out to any threatened place on the delta's edge. The lowest echelon in this setup is what the French call autodéfence, i.e., self-defense by a kind of village home guard, armed with ten to 100 rifles. The home guard's function is to repel light...
...disastrous postwar inflation, Premier Alcide de Gasperi's government three years ago had launched Italy on a course of courageous fiscal austerity. The government tried to spend as little as possible on public works, clamped severe restrictions on bank credit. These measures worked to stop inflation, stiffened the spine of the lira. But Italy, the ECA men say, has had an overdose of its fiscal medicine...
...working for them than their sisters elsewhere. But no woman, warned Britain's Dr. Annis Gillie, should stand up for any work that she can do sitting down. Kitchen tables, counters and sinks are too low for many women, she complained : they have to stoop, which strains the spine and causes low back pain, and they have to thrust the head forward, which often inflames the neck muscles...
...headed east through the long twilight of the 55th parallel-which also crosses Moscow-over the frosted spikes of southern Alaska, and rumbled southward to bore through the storms that lay down the spine of the Rockies. At 2 a.m., in the cold, sub-zero blackness eight miles above the earth, she found the telltale bend in the Missouri River on her radar, opened her bomb bays, and sent-not a bomb, but a long flash on her radio...