Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...helmet was knocked off. Something struck me in the face. I put my hand to my face and eyes. I felt blood and raw flesh. . . . The Japs in the trees fired a steady downpour of bullets that chipped up dirt all around us and ripped through our sandbags. ... I strained my eyes for a, glimmer of light, but I couldn...
With a clank of chains and the mingled aroma of voodoo incense and roasting human flesh, William Buehler Seabrook reveals a story of his life. It is sensational and apparently omits little but the spectacular chunks that went into Seabrook's earlier personal histories (Asylum, The Magic Island...
...there had been an enemy air attack. That's what it looked like. The flight deck was burning from amidships, toward each end, in two lines just like two little forest fires. The whole island structure was white, as if the skin had been burned away from the flesh. I thought I saw a crowd of men standing on the after part of the flight deck, but they may have been wounded left there, or dead men. Murphy, I guess we have a lot to be thankful for. It's a little hard to realize just...
...path of spiritual progress, Ramakrishna told his followers in an oft-repeated phrase, is kaminikanchan (literally "Woman & Gold," meaning "lust & greed"). " 'Woman & Gold' alone is the obstacle to yoga," said he. "What is there in the body of a woman? Only such things as blood, flesh, fat, entrails, and the life. Why should one love such a body?" In some of his ecstasies, Ramakrishna regarded himself as a woman and worshipped Kali as her handmaid. Said his woman devotees: "We seldom looked on Sri Ramakrishna as a member of the male...
Author Heym's publishers believe that Hostages is "the first really great novel to be written in English" by a refugee from the Nazis. Coming at a time when the tragic fate of flesh & blood hostages is a steady newspaper item, Author Heym's fiction is likely to sell on the strength of its title alone...