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Surgery of the kind Griffiths was suggesting is now almost a routine measure to restore symmetry and balance when one limb, particularly a leg, has been shortened by disease or accident. But there is always a danger of infection; the bone ends may not unite properly, or there may be complications in the soft tissues. An orthopedist will not lightly undertake such operations for the sole purpose of reducing height. Ann Rowston's extreme tallness, however, justified the procedure, and Sur geon Griffiths satisfied himself that she was healthy enough to stand the strain...
...long Tiwanda braves would hunt bear and finally, on this particular day, the largest bear of the season would be killed, prepared and eaten by every members of the community. Each brave, squaw and papoose had his share of bear meat, of bear brain, of bear eye, of bear bone, and, for dessert, of bear's fur, cooked in a special glasse...
...that grows on the earth till they were dry-And drank the marrow of the bone...
...business of running the country. He had, after all, introduced the steel proposals primarily as a sop to those same left-wingers, who already have talked ominously of revolt against Wilson's foreign and defense policies. Now he had simply balanced the sop for the left with a bone for the right...
...resting his aching legs on the bench. Roger Maris, a $72,000-a-year man, was sprawled in an easy chair in Independence, Mo., nursing a pulled hamstring muscle. Catcher Elston Howard, $70,000 worth of talent, was out of action for six weeks after an operation for bone chips in his elbow. To replace Howard, the Yankees shipped two players off to Kansas City in exchange for H. R. ("Doc") Edwards, whose credentials include a lifetime batting average of .244 and a tour of duty as a Navy medic...