Word: carcass
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...Campbell. When seals are killed, the Eskimos remove the eyes and swallow them so the animal cannot watch itself being skinned. The first time Campbell went on a walrus hunt, it all but turned his stomach to see a native gulping down handfuls of live maggots from the carcass. Once he tried a live worm from a slaughtered caribou, and found it most disagreeable...
...plodded back across the Pacific, rested briefly at San Diego and went on to New York Harbor. She was tucked away in an East River pier, her carcass decently out of-sight. Agents came aboard her to calculate coldly the amount of aluminum in her superstructure, the steel in her hull. Officers and men learned then that old Pat was through. They were not bitter. More than 200 other veterans of World War II (about 600,000 tons of warships) were also marked for the scrap heap. Considering the life she had led, Pat had lasted a long time...
...herd and skillfully altering brands, was long ago motorized. But this year it has spread like a rash all over the meal-hungry face of the nation: ¶ Near Milford, Mich., thieves killed two prize steers, cut off the hindquarters, stuck a $50 bill on one carcass for the farmer...
More than victory was in the air last week. Poisonously, pervading even the conquerors' exultation, dying Germany's stench hung over Europe. The Nazi Leviathan might be as hard to bury as a whale on a beach. Unless the victors quickly perfected their disposal plans, the carcass would infect the peace...
World War II has brushed Europe's handful of surviving kings off their thrones like flies off a carcass. Some of them are in exile from countries that show less & less enthusiasm for taking them back. One, Belgium's Leopold III, is a prisoner of the Nazis. Another, Italy's Vittorio Emanuele III, is a somewhat down-at-the-heel cobelligerent of the United Nations. Only a choice few can do more than twiddle their royal thumbs or try on their more & more meaningless crowns for size...