Word: carcass
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...capitalizing on her military hegemony and striking out unscrupulously for every sort of commercial advantage in the East, stimulated by her nascent nationalism. It is a position of gather ye rosebuds while ye may,' with Russia playing a waiting game along on the sidelines and China serving as the carcass to be spliced up, but at most, all that can be expected of the Russian resistance to Japanese aggression is a vigorous open denunciation before the other powers, accompanied by the usual subversive, calumniatory propaganda...
...battling fish they watched while the water grew red about the boat. Then there was a lull and a moment later the swordfish appeared floating belly up on the surface. Before the sharks could devour it the fishermen drove them oft. hoisted what was left of the carcass into their boat. Minus head and tail it weighed nearly...
...standing in the paddock.* It was Phar Lap. He had not returned to life, but the glossy coat was Phar Lap's and the ridges beneath it looked precisely like the powerful muscles that had made him great. His owner, David J. Davis, had had the Phar Lap carcass reconstructed, was exhibiting it at Belmont before sending it home to Australia...
Even as a carcass Phar Lap showed why he had won so many races. He stood 16 hands, 3¾ in.; taller by 2⅛ in. than Man o' War. His girth behind the shoulders was 81 in. against Man o' War's 71¾ in. Alive, Phar Lap weighed approximately 1,200 lb.; Man o' War, 1,160 Ib. Other measurements: front leg from knee, 20 in.; hind leg from hock, 25 in.; length of neck, 36 in.; length of body...
...Another knife sweeps his insides as clean as his skin. A twist of tweezers and his toenails go clattering to the floor. A bath of fire removes the last shred of hair. A cleaver drops and rends the backbone. Exactly 25 minutes is the interim between living animal and carcass ready for the cooler. Twenty-four hours elapse before it is cut into its component parts?hams, bellies (bacons), loins, shoulders, fat and trimming. The hog's destiny is complete except for the bacon and hams which must be cured (one month to three) and sausage which must hang...