Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless...
...ground. Children walking home from Sunday school were carried from the streets with pulverized glass and cement ground into their cheeks. A department store was in flames. Housewives caught table-setting were driven to emergency wards to have chunks of their own glass and dishes dug from their flesh. Nineteen hours later the town's raid squads, plus soldiers and ATS girls on leave, were still digging for bodies, live & dead, in the debris...
...forests, backbone of Sweden's economy, now produce fuel, fabrics, food and fodder. Mass expeditions into the countryside have harvested tons of wild roots, berries and herbs. Nettle soup has been found to be tasty. Not so tasty is boar flesh (imported from Hungary) and "Norrlands biff" (socalled "beef of the north," which is about 75% wood pulp). Cigarets are vague combinations of Turkish tobacco and Swedish hay. The traditional smörgasbord has virtually disappeared because bread is the most severely rationed of all foods except meat. Prized Iceland and Norwegian fat herring are no longer available, good...
...though any other orator might well have envied it. His courage and his eloquence shine brightest in adversity. When he first appeared before Congress, on Dec. 26, 1941, Allied prospects were dim and the U.S. was reeling under the first shock of war. Then, speaking from manuscript, he tingled flesh and tightened throats with the indomitable defiance of his ringing phrases...
...hurried past and entered the Tunis native quarter where the Arabs stood sullenly and watched our car go by. In the Jewish quarter the civilians cheered 'Vive la France!' and stopped us several times with the wall of flesh their bodies formed. An old man unfurled a picture of Roosevelt and shouted 'Vive Roosevelt!' They swarmed all over the car as we edged toward the center of town, and when we stopped before the Hotel Majestic there was almost a mob scene...