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...They've thrown us a bone every few weeks," said a dejected Air Force sergeant in England last month, "but I can see the writing on the wall. They ain't comin' through." Like thousands of others, the sergeant had ceased to believe in the recurring rumor that the Defense Department would soon lift its ban on Government-paid travel for dependents of servicemen stationed in Europe (TIME, April 13). But last week-after months of angry complaints by separated service families and some sticky questions at presidential press conferences-the Pentagon finally came through...
...acnc," or ordered table in the evening light cups and glasses broken into by shadows." He describes a man's first kiss this way: "Her smeared in little unflattering the skin around her mouth; it I had been given a face to the presence of bone--skull under teeth behind lips--impeded...
...modern painting: "Very clever work, quite lovely new colour and design, and inside it all nothing-emptiness, ashes, an old bone...
...arts. He played the flute to the accompaniment of one of Johann Sebastian Bach's sons; he wrote indifferent poetry under the tutelage of his sometime friend Voltaire; he was an avid collector of paintings and sculpture. In affairs of state, he was Prussian to the bone, but in painting he admired what was foreign...
...anchored by his neck muscles, a severe blow to practically any part of the head will make the skull move in the direction of the punch. The jelly-like brain does not accelerate as fast as the rigid skull, so part of the brain is in effect struck by bone. Usually the effect is no worse than that produced when any fleshy part of the body is hit with a hard object: a bruise, from the breaking of minute blood vessels. A long succession of moderate contusions (bruises), which cause slow, leaky hemorrhages, may permanently damage small parts...