Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This fortress was more than a series of coastal guns. It was not just a wall, a thing to be pierced. It was a mobile fortress. Its walls could move from hill to hill. It consisted of great pools of armor and flesh, standing well inland from the coasts, ready to fling themselves at enemy beachheads, and of planes and submarines, striking on the approaches to the coasts...
Cold Cure. Whether the chill is caused by hours in cold water or minutes in freezing air, the treatment is to handle the injured flesh gently, keep it cold, sprinkle sulfanilamide on all raw spots, and very gradually bring temperature back to normal. In this way, Royal Canadian Navy surgeons made a fine record in treating 150 North Atlantic survivors exposed from 30 hours to 22 days: there were only seven amputations. In England, doctors keep the affected parts in cold water. The Canadians have evolved a refrigerating unit with leg openings like prisoners' stocks, so that a patient...
Restored to love and responsibility, the prince must return to his rose. He proposes to take Saint-Exupéry's sketch of the sheep (which will grow into flesh and bone). But sheep eat bushes-and the little prince demands a sketch of a muzzle...
Soon even the dried flesh gave out. They ate the rawhide from their snowshoes. They suggested killing the Indians. Eddy warned them. Silently they disappeared. Soon another man died. His wife saw her husband's heart "roasted on a stick." In January, Eddy, supported by two Digger Indians, "left bloody foot prints across six miles of rough ground" and reached a ranch. At last California knew what had happened to the Donners. Relief expeditions began to form at once...
They could not find Tamsen Donner. Keseberg later denied that he had killed her. But there in the camp he told the rescuers that "he ate her body and found her flesh the best he had ever tasted." They took Keseberg, "now a mere sac of bestiality," over the great divide down into California which had become America while he was developing his taste...