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...joint. When he opened the joint, he found that the medial meniscus was not simply torn: it was shredded. But he had intended to cut out this whole piece of cartilage anyway, because if any part of a damaged meniscus remains in place it causes erosion of the bone and has to be removed in a later operation. The cyst came out with the meniscus...
...couple of days afterward, CBS announced that Rather-despite the bone that had been tossed to him-was being transferred to London. Hearing this, Lyndon followed up his earlier gesture with a whole can of Ken-L-Ration, wishing Rather all the best and promising him that he would "put in a good word with Harold...
When examination time comes along, the 2,500 cadets at the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs are pretty much like college students everywhere. They bone up, take their tough tests, and then sweat out their grades. But some of them obviously have had less to sweat out than most. Reason: they cheated. The Air Force announced last week that a "well-organized" group of a dozen or so cadets stood accused of stealing examination papers and offering them for sale...
Expert beyond experience, He knew the anguish of the marrow The ague of the skeleton; No contact possible to flesh Allayed the fever of the bone...
...prophet of the wrath to come who screams with infernal glee as he opens the vials of vituperation on the heads of humankind. His passions are scoriae, his imagination a holocaust. His wit is an indentured imp that leaps to any bidding-it can tickle the funny bone, attack with acid, fry living flesh on a deadpan, reach down the throat of a corpse and come up with a ghastly guffaw. His language is bare, strong, lucid, manly: perhaps the most intensely concentrated prose ever written in English. In energy he is the last Elizabethan; not even Shakespeare...