Word: carcasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Said the News: "We've never . . . blown our editorial horn for any nudist cult . . . Where do you put your change, cigarettes and matches? [But] we've urged outright rebellion against any and all social edicts which say a guy has to pull a hot jacket over a carcass which already, probably, is steaming like a 1908 Maxwell. Down with any heartless females and etiquette fanatics who'd still like to see us looking like boiled lobsters and feeling like steamed clams." The News confidently headlined...
Perhaps the most effective story is one that crosses satire and pitilessness in almost equal parts. In Under the Beech Tree, a mannish countrywoman who cares for nothing but the chase is suddenly confronted with the fresh carcass of a vixen. She imagines that the precious creature-the might-have-been mother of countless foxes-has been wantonly shot by her young nephew, and she collapses in a paroxysm of rage and grief...
From a federal jail in Manhattan where he has served five months of his one-year sentence for contempt of Congress, pudgy Eugene Dennis, general secretary of the U.S. Communist Party, answered a query on the state of his health: "The carcass is scaled down somewhat . . . The mind is, of course, cogitating, and the spirit is fine. Everything is O.K. with me except for the loss of precious time...
...late May ... he hears a mighty storm raging ten miles away in the hills and knows the rains have broken." A wall of brown, log-choked water bears down on him. "He staggers and falls, but the groan he gives is drowned by peals of thunder," and his carcass is smashed to bits as the flood hurtles it along. The reason elephant remains are seldom found: porcupines gnaw away the tusks to get at the nerve pulp, other scavengers destroy whatever else remains...
...down 8 Ibs. of doped horsemeat set out to trap him. Groggy and submissive, he was clamped into a cage, given a heart stimulant to counteract the drugs, 15 hours later was dead. By then, however, he was a public hero: the city park board refused to sell his carcass for $10,000 to a Washington, D.C. furrier; instead, he will be regally mounted in the zoo. Quick as a fox, and resourceful as a beaver, a local department store put leopard T-shirts on sale, sold more than 300 to the city's leopard-minded small...