Word: bones
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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There are five different ways to break a leg. They range all the way from a "greenstick" fracture, where the bone is cracked half through and split longitudinally, to a compound fracture, where the shattered bone juts through the skin. No matter what the break, treatment is always the same: first setting and immobilization, then proper exercise...
...Bone and Gristle. Fifty-year-old George is childless, disinclined to marry again. Once he was reported engaged to the Countess of Craven. The Countess' mother denied the rumor, but added: "I may state, however, that my daughter and the King of Greece have been close friends for about 15 years." A year before that, while Edward VIII was cruising in the Adriatic, King George invited him to dine with him-"alone." Cousin Edward arrived with Mrs. Simpson. A few days later Edward invited Cousin George to dine with him alone. George arrived with his friend...
...Greece had, for better or worse, stepped out of her comic-opera role. Greece was full in the path of huge events. In a debate at the Oxford Union during his exile George once said: "Instinctively I distrust the professor and the pedant. Give me a burly man of bone and gristle." This week the men of bone were...
...Cardinals' famed Gashouse Gang. Once, when he threw a ball during a game, yards of bandage unraveled from his hand. Manager Frisch stopped the game, learned to his amazement that Martin was playing with a broken finger. "Aw," said Pepper, "it's only a small bone." He horrified the Cardinals' President Sam Breadon by playing football and racing midget autos in off hours...
...raise at least $1,500,000 towards this deficit, over and above the $17,000,000 U. S. Protestants annually give to foreign missions. With this $1,500,000 they hope to keep Europe's missions open for a year, although budgets must be slashed to the bone...