Word: skeletonized
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...There wasn't even a skeleton organization around to enforce full controls.* But by this week there was such a round of price and wage boosts that the urge to impose across-the-board controls -whether it made strict economic sense or not-had become almost irresistible...
...medical certificate was a likeness of the balding, bearded Dr. Warren. At either side was a grotesque dangling skeleton. At the bottom was a drawing of a surgeon, performing some sort of abdominal dissection upon a corpse with instruments faintly similar to oyster knives. The slashed end of a hemp rope dangled from the edge of the table. The other end of the rope was still fastened in a noose about the corpse's neck...
Nonetheless, Lorjou had followed Picasso's symbolism, while challenging him in treatment. Like Guernica, Lorjou's Atomic Age features a horse and a bull; but while Picasso's horse writhes wounded, Lorjou's flies above the scene, whipped on by a skeleton. And while Picasso's bull stands threatening, Lorjou's is decapitated; the head sleeps on a striped pedestal, a plucked rooster between its horns. "Both Picasso and I," Lorjou explains, "went to the same source-Spain...
During World War II, Cronin was direction of Civilian Defense but, despite elaborate preparations, not a bomber came in sight. In October 1948, City Manager John B. Atkinson asked him to reactivate a skeleton force of 150 key men from World...
...skeleton staff of Crimeds saw their dauntless friends depart, and hastily prepared the biography of Dr. Hu appearing on page four...