Word: spined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Noting that fast-healing humans also had a high zinc content in their bodies, Air Force doctors began trying zinc on patients at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. They worked with men suffering from relatively common and painful pilonidal sinuses (which appear near the base of the spine), the removal of which leaves a cavernous wound. Six .men who had moderately large excisions and got only standard treatment took an average of 62 days for healing. Seven, with wound cavities averaging almost three times as large, healed in only 45 days. The only difference in treatment was that...
Jerks & Gangsters. Indeed, from Cape Corse to the Strait of Bonifacio, the 114-mile-long island, which lies just 105 miles southeast of Nice, is little more than scenery. The snow-topped mountainous spine of Corsica is traversed only by a Toonerville-style railroad, the Micheline, which looks out on ruined citadels, deserted villages and scarred forests. Once rich in timber (pine, chestnut, cork trees), Corsica has been hard-hit by forest fires. Population has drained from 300,000 in the 1870s to 170,000 today. Ajaccio, the capital, is a cluster of quaint but quaking buildings, though a scattering...
...because it is man's eternal second chance. Paradoxically, it seems to affirm what it is destined to refute, as one generation's wisdom inevitably becomes the next generation's folly. Without being overly profound or unduly grave, William Goodhart has planted this insight in the spine of his first play. In a rock-solid performance, Henry Fonda not only gives body to a role, but also substance...
...right I am.' . . .I was about ten feet in back of Daniels. Almost instantly after the statement was made, one shot was fired. When Daniels was shot, I turned to leave. I did not want to play hero. Another shot was fired, and I was struck . . . in my spine." The priest said that neither he nor Daniels was armed-"The only thing I had in my hand was a dime," for a soft drink...
Though some of their adventures stir excitement, 8¾% never quite makes up its mind whether to be a spoof or a spine-tingler. But just before the giddy lovers emplane for England, Morley offers a verdict about the plot. He assures everyone that the sought-after secret document was only a scrap of paper, and the whole business just a routine bit of counterespionage. Precisely...