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Word: flesh (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people. The world's movers and shakers, said the prospectus, are "something more than stage figures with a name. It is important to know what they drink. It is more important to know to what gods they pray and what kind of fights they love." Stories told in flesh & blood terms would get into the readers' minds when stories told in journalistic banalities would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Story Of An Experiment: What Kind of Fights They Love | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

...Flesh & Blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Thoughts & Afterthoughts | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...expatriate young Austrian ski instructor. Daughter of one French army officer and wife of another, she has given up her family and her marriage and stood up proudly to the criticism and contempt of the conservative villagers, all to win and keep Ferdl Eder's "blond alien flesh." Eder had lost his country when Hitler took Austria. When he wanted to visit his family in Austria, he had to apply for a German passport. To Corinne his act seemed a compromise with Hitlerism and a betrayal of her love. She persuaded him to tear up his passport. Then came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Intensity in the Alps | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

...Solid Flesh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Way Things Are | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

Expenses for the use of Sanders have figured prominently in the activities of theater groups. The charges are certainly legitimate; they could well he expected to be the same in any commercial theater. But the University seems only too determined to exact its pound of flesh. The bills are presented in a business-like fashion, and are expected to be paid promptly. If a play flops, the bills are still there, clamoring for payment just as loudly as bills of outside establishments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: From the Pit | 2/21/1948 | See Source »

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