Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dull. Its basic theme is the Huxleyan conviction that world reform must begin in the individual soul, and that men may enter "the Divine Ground" of eternity only by a regime of selflessness and contemplation. Nor should man imagine that death will save him the trouble of choosing between flesh and spirit. Author Huxley's alarming notion is that the same choice will confront all men in the hereafter...
Mortally wounded though it was, the Wehrmacht lashed back last week at the Red colossus with the heaviest German counterattacks since the start of the Soviet offensive in late June. The Germans had traded too much space for too little time; now there was nothing left to trade but flesh and steel...
...Flesh and blood could no longer stand before Omar Bradley's slashing tank-infantry assaults, the endless, unopposed scourging by the greatest array of air power in history...
...bulletlike pellets. Far from a bomb's concussion center, well beyond the range of missiles caught up in its cyclonic force, Londoners found themselves caught in terrible gusts of shattered and pulverized glass. If the blast caught a man near a window, he could lose the skin and flesh of his face and eyelids. Often the glass would drive deep into eyes...
...travelogue rings clear and true. The late Count Ciano is shown boldly expressing his contempt for German Foreign Minister Ribbentrop and his antagonism toward Hitler. Mussolini astonished Welles by seeming inert, ponderous and static. His close-cropped hair was snow white. In repose, his face fell in rolls of flesh. When the Duce talked, he kept his eyes shut save for moments when he remembered his reputation for staring "dynamically...