Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flesh. As the delegates filed in, past a tapestry once presented to Poland's great King Stanislas by Louis...
Ribbons of Flesh. A few others got as far as the low, 3-ft.-thick band of barbed wire beside the electric fence before they were shot or died of burns. So awful was their agony that they paid scant attention to the angry prongs of barbed wire and wiggled under even though it ripped their flesh to ribbons. A handful, protected by the mad confusion, succeeded in getting over the fence, hastily stripped off their burning clothes, and started running eastward across the flat plowed field. On the other side of the field was a tank also retreating eastward...
...ovens were not clean. In some of them there were still charred remains, a grinning, blackened skull, a chest from which the flesh was still not fully burned away, skeletons half melted down. The ovens were cold now but in recent weeks before the Americans came their clean bright flame consumed between 150 and 200 people daily...
...Gripsholm after spending the winter of 1942 in a Japanese prison camp (TIME, Sept. 7, 1942). He lost part of both feet from gangrene acquired by squatting for hours on the cold prison floor. Surgeons first tried tiny grafts of skin, later had to resort to large pieces of flesh from Powell's thigh. Since January, wearing two shoes on each foot (cost $212), Powell has been learning to walk with canes...
...systematic habit of hanging a toy elephant in his nursery window and lying awake watching it; his inexplicably intense hatred of his new governess. As sophisticated Producer John Houseman and his players knock these and other ingredients against each other, they give off an occasional resonance that makes your flesh creep for the nearest mental foxhole...