Word: flesh
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Vesicants are the most efficient. They burn flesh. They stick to ground surfaces for weeks under ideal conditions, penetrate clothing, give almost no warning of their presence. They are seldom fatal, but in warfare an invalid needs more care than a corpse. Mustard gas is the most famous of the vesicants. Whereas in World War I sternutators caused one casualty for every 650 pounds of gas used, and lung injurants one per 230 pounds, blister gas was much more efficient: one per 60 pounds. There are no certain defenses against it except reprisal. But it is not the easiest...
...Fred MacMurray), who lost his ancestral home when the bank foreclosed and sold it to a young Manhattan sportsman, Norman Williams (Stirling Hayden). They become two corners of a four-cornered triangle. The other two are Stoney's wandering wife, a man-crazy flibbertigibbet (never seen in the flesh) who once had an affair with Norman, and Charlie Dunterry (Madeleine Carroll), a Southerner reared in the north who comes back to have a look at her family homestead...
Most people think that Bimbo is a myth, but actually he is a flesh-and-blood Junior, qualified for superiority by virtue of a golden name that, once heard, is never forgotten. Gerald Sirkin '42 is the fighting leader of the crusade to elect Bimbo...
...Europe had ever seen. Leprous beggars and pockmarked peasants scratched their lice and wallowed in filth unmatched since the Middle Ages. Degraded courtiers wasted themselves lewdly in fashionable excesses copied from the French court of Louis XVI. The harlot Queen Maria Luisa, a green-complexioned, toothless masterpiece of stale flesh, wore herself out with dissipation, while her doltish husband hunted serving wenches and rabbits. (Of Maria Luisa Napoleon said: "Her character is written on her face; it surpasses anything you dare imagine.") Spain's strong man was Don Emmanuel Godoy, a half-educated, country-born ex-guardsman...
...there is no rest but in the tomb"); Danton ("I wanted the youth of Paris to arrive in Champagne covered with blood . . ."). People even managed to forget Jean Paul Marat '"When a man lacks everything ... he is justified in cutting another's throat and devouring the palpitating flesh"). But one man they never could forget-Maximilien Marie Isidore de Robespierre, "the sea-green, incorruptible" monster, France's dictator during the Terror...