Word: carcassing
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...unsheathed of any protective tissue, to the vibrations of sex and power must have found it difficult to have stayed away for so long. The last time he left quietly, his reputation on the decrescendo, his powers drained after grappling with his third novel, he dragged his speeded out carcass back to Brooklyn, the first act of his life as a serious artist a closed curtain...
...animal in a relatively short time, but his problem lately has been that feed costs have risen sharply. The packer who slaughters the calf adds a markup, but his margins have been pared by increasing labor and transportation costs. The retailer, who often dresses a 600-pound carcass into a variety of table meats, adds still another markup, but his own profits have been crimped by rising costs of everything from labor to fuel...
...seek the best buys," Hurlbut said, "but the meat market is a very volatile one. If there is a cutback, it will be by switching to other parts of the carcass or to other types of meat as prices indicate." Hurlbut added, however, that he has no plans to change the amount of meat on the menu...
...young GI's by Vietnam combat and their training at home. In this war atrocities are premeditated and recurring, not isolated aberrations. Marines receive a short lesson in cruelty during their pre-embarkation pep talk, when the company officer strangles a small rabbit, skins it, and throws its carcass at his men. "You can get anything you want out of that," said one former Marine...
...enacted countless times by posterity. This killing is viewed as almost a religious act, and Kahn has taken his cue from Brutus's words: "Let's be sacrificers, but not butchers...Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods. Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds...