Word: spined
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...bushy tree . . . with a short and usually crooked trunk . . . stout spreading rigid branches beset with slender spine-like branchlets, bright red and glabrous when they first appear, soon turning green, and in their first winter grey tinged with red, covered with a slight bloom . . . and ultimately dark brown tinged with...
...pulled an A in Elizabethan literature, but he wasn't much of a student. One thing he did enjoy was rowing. His crew was good enough to row at Poughkeepsie; but his career as an oarsman ended abruptly when he hurt his spine...
Patient E.G., 65, was dying of prostate cancer. The disease had spread to his bones and spine. He was paralyzed from the waist down. His legs were doubled up in a spasm and he was faint with pain. Two months ago the doctor began to give him daily injections. The patient was beyond noticing that he was getting a new medicine. But in three weeks he could move his legs. The pain slipped out of his body and he began to eat heartily. Last week, on shaky legs, he walked. Said a neurologist's report on the patient...
...cried a girl outside the Abbey, "I feel all tickly up and down me spine...
Among the plain people, ripples of cold fear ran up & down Italy's long spine. TIME Correspondent Emmet Hughes cabled from Naples: "In a café on the Via Medina, I asked the sad, round-faced proprietor behind the marble counter how afraid he was. His stubbly chin trembled and the watery blue eyes seemed ready to gush tears as he said, 'Of course I'm afraid. How many Italians have to die? You Americans killed some. The Germans killed others. Now it seems we're going to kill each other. We've got poverty...