Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...child," said Eugene Delacroix, "I was a Monster." In time the monster grew a mustache and became famous for his wit, his dandyism and his fierce, flamboyant art, which now fills one-third of the Louvre's 19th Century tier of honor. But Delacroix's leaping, flesh-tearing lions, burning cities, shipwrecks and hard-riding Moors suggest that, being a true child of his age, he never quite outgrew his childhood. According to one of the painter's closest friends, Poet Charles Baudelaire (who also gave life quite a Peter Panning), savagery was "the most precious part...
...each month the kappa invent seven or eight hundred new machines which throw 40 or 50,000 kappa out of work. When No. 23 wondered about the absence of labor trouble, his kappa friends explained nonchalantly: "They are all eaten up. We kill all those workers and eat their flesh. This month 64,769 workers have been dismissed and the price of meat has dropped...
...then a lady, consequential for her beauty or for her connections with an administrator of power, secretly showed a few nylons to her closest friends, and it was understood they came from the kindly representative of a war manufacturer. But no 'wham' girls in flesh-colored bathing suits appeared as party accessories...
...Aviv newspapers by telephone, Sergeants Mervyn Paice and Clifford Martin could be found. And there, in a clearing heavy with the stench of death, the searchers found them. Their bloodied, blackened bodies swung to & fro from eucalyptus trees. Their shirts were wrapped around their heads. Through their clothes and flesh were pinned Irgun "communiqués" accusing the sergeants of "anti-Jewish crimes." They had died slowly, by clumsy strangulation...
...pictures ... to adorne their walls," John Harvard's library grew into the finest in the Colonies. Then, on a stormy night in 1764, it burned to the ground. From John Harvard's collection, only one book - -John Downham's Christian Warfare Against the Deuill World and Flesh-was saved...