Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...though mesmerized by a snake." That time he got away, to crash-land safely "in the back garden of a Brigade cocktail party." When, a few days later, crewmen of the Margate lifeboat dragged Hillary, comatose, out of the North Sea, they rushed him ashore to have his burnt flesh caked with protective tannic acid, his eyes with a coating of gentian violet...
...inasmuch as it appeared simultaneously with the report of a projected compulsory sports program. What good would the latter do to increase the physical toughness of Harvard students if the greater majority of these, who have been accustomed in the past to having their extra rations of fish, flesh, and fowl, are from now on to go partially hungry? An army marches on its stomach. And, assuredly, very few persons will be availing themselves of "seconds," now that they will have to pay additional for them...
...weather. Best way to keep them warm is an Arctic sock one-half inch thick, which requires a shoe two sizes larger than usual. If feet get frozen, they should not be rubbed with snow, since frozen tissues are likely to crack and break. Best method of thawing frozen flesh is to warm it gradually without bending or chafing...
...became the Kingfish) was his Commissioner of Conservation. New Orleans, the last rampart which held out against Huey's domination, gave up a few months later. Big-beaked Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley (known to Huey as old Turkey Head) resigned, and burly Governor Richard Webster Leche (rhymes with flesh) certified Candidate Bob Maestri to the job. Normally, Maestri would have come up for reelection in 1938. But Leche talked the Louisiana Legislature into giving Maestri a six-year term...
...spirit of the story, and much of its flesh, is honest and, to newcomers in war, may well be clarifying. Moreover, the book serves as a travelogue and resume of the war in the East, from the fall of Nanking through China's first great victories in the following spring...