Word: carcass
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...present generation, Mussolini seems a semicomic ogre remembered most for his operatic posturings and his gruesome death-murdered with his mistress and strung by the heels like an undressed carcass outside a village butcher's shop...
Most German sportsmen would trade a boatload of Belchen for a single Auerhahn (European grouse), a bird so wily that one stuffed carcass is often all a man can show for a lifetime of shooting (TIME, April 28). The duckbilled, chicken-bodied coots that the gunmen slaughter in their annual Belchenjagd (Belchen hunt) are worthless as trophies, and dead birds are usually given to the nearest garbage collector. Some hunters claim that a Belchen is edible-if it is marinated for two weeks in buttermilk and roasted with chestnuts...
...sized Dalian watch from her bosom and bestowed it on her suitor. There were other visual distractions: a colored tableau showing a large violin walking on spindly legs and stretching an arm toward a piano gushing milk, a blind man sitting before a television set, a beef carcass hanging above the singers' heads with a trumpet fixed horizontally over its rear, a procession of eight actors who dropped armfuls of china as a crashing accompaniment...
...carcass was grim warning of trouble ahead, for such butchery was the traditional sign of the Mau Mau. From the hills came reports of obscene Mau Mau oath-takings in Kikuyuland villages, and that the savage rituals were beginning again in the sleazy native "locations" of bustling Nairobi. Most whites on isolated farms were again carrying guns at all times. At mealtime, doors were unlocked only to let servants in and locked again after they had served the food. Barbed-wire barriers were strung across garden paths and floodlights left on throughout the night. Alarm sirens and clusters of distress...
...dish, and from there it was beamed into space. Pioneer V got the message. A switching device in its electronic insides shot an electric current through a fusible bolt. The bolt melted and released a spring. It pushed Pioneer V away from the third-stage rocket, whose burned-out carcass might otherwise interfere with efficient radio transmission...