Word: spined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wall has slashed the arteries and nerves of Ber lin. It cuts through sewers and subways, severs bridges and thoroughfares. It bisects a cemetery, shears off churches and dwellings. Beside a green canal it becomes an ugly spaghetti-swarm of barbed wire. Along a quiet suburban street, its spine glints with jagged glass. The wall has separated sons from mothers, wives from husbands, friends from friends...
...possible in addition to their own families, then lock the door tight when there is no more room. "But it will be a hard thing to do," says President Frank F. Norton of Norton Atomic Shelter Corp. in Highland Park, Ill. "What sends chills up and down my spine is imagining a child or two out there saying 'Let me in!' when you're full and you just can't let him in. It could happen, I know...
...thought, revision* and consultation with allies went into the note. Still, the finished version came as no surprise either to the U.S. public, which has been well-briefed on the dangers of the Berlin crisis, or to the Kremlin, which has been well aware of the day-to-day spine stiffening in Washington. The U.S. note agreed with the Soviet contention that "a peace settlement is long overdue," but wasted no words putting the blame for delay where it properly belonged: on continuing "Soviet efforts to obtain special advantages for itself and the Soviet bloc at the expense...
Your story on Adolf Eichmann refers to Reinhardt Heydrich suffering a severed spine in the attack on him near Lidice. It was as Heydrich rode through Prague that a hand grenade was thrown into his open car and exploded behind him. His spleen was torn to pieces. In spite of almost immediate surgical intervention, he died several days later. I had to perform the autopsy and found the spine intact. As the whole incident occurred in Prague, the destruction of Lidice cannot be linked with the death of Heydrich in the way described in your statement...
...night until "a light dust lay over the whole city" of Lublin. At Auschwitz, even Eichmann noted that the smell of burning flesh "was not very pleasant.'' On May 29, 1942. Czech partisans hurled a grenade at Eichmann's boss. Reinhardt Heydrich, near Lidice. His spine was severed, and it took him six days to die. In revenge, all the men of Lidice were killed on the spot. Eichmann sent the 302 women and children of Lidice to the death camps...