Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...face, whose hats generally looked too small for him, he was known to his men as the "Fat Boy." Actually muscular and fit as a fiddle, he expected his subordinates to keep the same way, would often give an aide a strenuous tour of duty just to get the flesh off him. Mounted on a white charger, Gort was a heroic figure as Commander in Chief of the British Army on the disastrous field of France. He shone as a systematic organizer rather than as a brilliant tactician. When he returned to England from the shambles of Dunkirk...
...special train carrying 452 pallid, cadaverous, sick and wounded French war prisoners ground into the Gare du Nord last week, bringing a stench of decaying, living flesh to Paris. Six trainloads of healthy French flesh on the hoof left France for Germany. Pierre Laval's plan of exchanging three French workers for one war prisoner was functioning. Frenchmen had become domestic animals, weighed and traded and shipped...
...Stader technique, a pair of metal pins is first driven through the flesh and well into each end of the fractured bone (see cut). For greater firmness the pins are driven in obliquely, as a carpenter drives a nail. Each set of pins is then locked into a pin-bar, and the two bars are bolted to a long extension rod, forming a sort of external auxiliary bone. The apparatus (weight: 2¼ Ib.) is made of a light aluminum alloy except for 1) the pins, which are stainless steel so that they will not corrode in contact with flesh...
...began almost a year ago. When workmen with injured hands reported to the shipyard hospital, attendants allowed them to put their hands or feet into an X-ray machine and watch the waggling shadows of their bones on a fluoroscopic screen. X-rays are literally death rays which kill flesh when too powerful or upon prolonged exposure. Apparently the workmen X-rayed themselves for several minutes. Skilled X-ray technicians limit exposure to only a few seconds...
...Spirit, The Flesh. In Topeka, Kans., Patrolmen David Hummer and William Miller searched a woman prisoner, found in her purse: a Bible, a pint of whiskey...