Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tiptoed along red carpets and emerged in Grand Hall, an oblong place filled with marble pillars and gilded cherubs. There was George VI, King, Emperor, in the flesh, handing out medals and shaking hands with intrepid subjects who were queued up in a long line...
Every Brazilian present quivered when the President proudly said: "May God's blessing go with you, as our spirits and hearts go with you." Said a correspondent who heard Vargas at his oratorical best: "It was enough to make your flesh crawl...
...since it began (1920). He refuses to talk about himself, talks about his laboratory only in scientific journals in abstruse articles on the devious ways of blood. From the beginning, the laboratory's work has been too deep for most laymen, as near pure science as work on flesh & blood can be. In 1940 the National Research Council picked Dr. Cohn to find out whether beef plasma could substitute for human plasma in wartime transfusions. So far the answer is no, but in turning beef blood inside out, techniques were developed which led to the new ways of mining...
...whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places...
Last April he found her-a young cellist with very little professional modeling experience and the kind of floral flesh Renoir liked to paint. Maine must still have been on his mind, for according to the model, he would paint pants on her one day, paint them off the next. He gave his nude a musing, pastoral face and the rosy-brown, gently diffused flesh of warm-weather drowsiness. Against the barn's sober timbers, earth floor and haymow, she has the calm glow of a lamp in daylight...