Word: skeletons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Renwal's Visible Man. A 16-in.-tall clear-plastic assembly kit of the human body from skin to skeleton, with veins, arteries, bones and body organs, Renwal's man can be taken apart and put together again. List price...
...were jailed that year in London alone, Jewish property was confiscated, and many of them were executed. Little St. Hugh, as he was soon called,*received a pillared shrine in Lincoln Cathedral. In 1791 the tomb was opened by the president of the Royal Society. Inside was "the complete skeleton of a boy, three feet, three inches long." For years, on a plaque above the tomb, visitors to Lincoln Cathedral could read a full account of the story, softened only by a small postscript casting doubt on its authenticity. Last week the plaque disappeared. To replace it, a new version...
Apart from Lowe's plaguy tactics. Napoleon's own skeleton court was a prickly lot. Three officers and a secretary-Marshal Bertrand, Count de Montholon, General Gourgaud, Count Las Cases-had accompanied him into exile out of mixed motives of avarice, reflected glory and-last and least-devotion. It was believed that Napoleon had 6,000,000 francs in Europe (he actually had half of that). Bertrand was perhaps the least self-seeking, but he lost status when Mme. Bertrand refused to become Napoleon's mistress. With or without the hint, Mme. de Montholon was a wily...
...find an issue when things go well economically. Not only have Labourite charges of unemployment and economic stagnation become hard to justify, but Macmillan's efforts to break the diplomatic deadlock have frustrated the argument that the Conservatives have taken no initiative to end the cold war. Only the skeleton of Suez and the recent abuses of force in Kenya and Nyasaland haunt the Tories in foreign affairs...
...McCormack covertly began to work for Meany. Good Democrats should never split on labor issues, he soothingly told the Rayburn loyalists on the committee, and "Don't follow the Speaker down this road to ruin." As some of the Rayburn Democrats swayed, McCormack threw open support to a skeleton substitute bill drawn up by California's Teamster-tempted Jimmy Roosevelt...