Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rain, cleaning 210 tons of assorted parade debris off the streets; the last drunk was put on the last train. . . . All week no one had asked: "Where's Elmer?" Elmer, symbol of what the Legion was, even a year ago, had gone the way of all flesh...
...letter he dropped in his flight was found in the street. The police gave the press the text of it. The sinister politeness of the abductor's letter, which requested the sum of $100,000, made newspaper readers' flesh creep...
Walls vanished. Men vanished. Living, clothes and flesh torn off, ran screaming, blindly, through an eruption of debris and live steam. In company-owned houses outside the gates, their families were knocked off their feet, and window panes disintegrated. Passengers in a TWA stratoliner, 6,000 ft. up and 20 miles away, saw "huge pillars of white smoke ... a bright flame at the base." In towns 125 miles away people felt the shock...
...experience everything in the world with all five senses at once, and to communicate the experience in a series of verbal landslides. Sometimes they piled up in masses of magnificent rhetoric: "And we? Made of our father's earth, blood of his blood, bone of his bone, flesh of his flesh-born like our father here to live and strive, here to win through or be defeated-here, like all the other men who went before us, not too nice or dainty for the uses of this earth-here to live, to suffer and to die-O brothers, like...
...ourselves whether they were cannibals; and we did not neglect it. We first tried, by many indirect questions put to each of them apart, to learn in what manner the rest of the bodies had been disposed of; and finding them very constant in one story, that, after the flesh had been cut off, it was all burnt; we at last put the direct question, whether they had not eaten some of it? They immediately shewed as much horror at the idea as any European would have done; and asked, very naturally, if that was the custom amongst...