Word: bones
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Japanese lost a staggering 30,000 men there. The 1st suffered more casualties from malaria (5,601) than from the enemy (621 killed, 1,517 wounded). Badly battered and bone tired, the division went to Brisbane, then Melbourne, for rest, replacements and refitting. After a year, it was ready for the next battle...
...24th the relief it so sorely needed and deserved. The new arrivals were fresh and eager. Their commander, Major General Hobart Gay, promised a bottle of champagne to any man who got a Communist tank. As Gay's men moved up to the front, they met the gaunt, bone-tired G.I.s of the 24th Division, some barefooted, some almost naked, all staggering from exhaustion...
...week's end, after an operation to remove bone chips, Ted Williams said he hoped to be back "in five or six weeks." The Boston Red Sox, pre-season pennant favorites but lagging in fourth place last week, hoped so too. But the highest-paid player* in baseball might very well be out of action for the rest of the season...
...write a clear and handsome hand. Said the London Times: "The influence of the 16th Century Roman chancery style is predominant, and undoubtedly beneficial ; but the exhibits are commendably free from formalism, and it is clearly the intention of those in charge of this admirable experiment that the bone structure of Arrighi, Johnston and Fairbank* shall be well covered with idiosyncratic muscle and flesh, to produce a sound, natural cursive...
...desperate intensity and temper than the battle of the bus driver v. his passengers. To the riders, the driver is a chronically exasperated ogre who delights in abandoning them on rainy street corners, or, if he consents to take them aboard, greets them with insults and treats them to bone-crushing lurches. To the driver, the enemy is a hydra-headed beast: a door blocker, a purse fumbler, and willfully uninformed. Jockeying his big green and cream-colored juggernaut down congested Madison Avenue one day last week, Driver James Coyne gloomily considered such frustrations...