Word: devours
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hollow-eyed children wait in vain for food; men and monsters try to devour each other; a little girl's tear confronts a scene of carnage; men mutilate each other in the name of "an eye for an eye"; a melancholy hovers over even Lasansky's portrayals of his own family. Sprinkled among the prints is a series of strange self-portraits. They all share the same fierce intensity, but none looks like any other...
...deep in stinking guano and littered with the skulls and bones of long-dead bats. Over this repulsive carpet crawl fierce, flesh-eating dermestid beetles and their larvae-so numerous that the floor seems alive. When a sick or senile bat falls from the ceiling, the beetles crowd to devour it. The walls are thick with mites, ticks and other bat parasites. The air of the cave is foul with the unpleasant ammoniacal odor of bats, whose excreta comes showering down...
Fidel Castro's revolution continues to devour its young. The latest to be condemned to the firing squad: Major William Morgan, 32, U.S.-born adventurer, who, only a year ago, won Castro's praise for foiling a guerrilla landing in Cuba by playing double agent. Found guilty of smuggling arms to anti-Castro guerrillas, Morgan at 10:30 one night last week became the 598th counter-revolutionary to be executed by the Castro government...
...state laws fixing the slaughtering age for cows at 25 years were unreasonable and suggested that 15 was old enough. According to one Delhi official's bitter estimate, the 10% of India's cows that are old, economically useless and fit only for the rest home program devour the output of 40 million of India's 300 million cultivated acres. "Man eats cows in other countries, but here the cow is eating man," says a Congress party leader. But he says it in private. Calling for more money for more rest homes for old cows, Nehru himself...
...yourself of all that makes your life a life. You are letting yourself slip scrapily down the coarse file of pure scholarship. You will find talking to our Managing Editor a good deal easier than hobnobbing with a wounded puma. You will discover that Radcliffe editors do not, actually, devour their young alive. No candidate has ever crawled into University' Hall with the news that he was made to run on beds of broken glass...