Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Constance goes to prison under an assumed name-in order to be treated like her commoner sisters-she no longer seems a historical figure but a flesh-and-blood participant in that sad, violent, wholly romanticized period mislabeled the good old days, when men were men and women were voteless...
Until recently, few democratic nations other than the U.S. have provided elaborate security arrangements for heads of state and government, and most still do not. The fashion of "pressing the flesh" U.S.-style has spread to other countries. But the traditional reserve and respect toward leaders in cultures older than that of the U.S. still often hold sway, as do moral and social restraints on aberrant individual behavior. Besides, foreign laws' often permit authorities to be tougher, locking suspects up arbitrarily when they think trouble may be brewing...
Stone:.. with a synthesizer-like framework of harpsichord, piano, and organ notes played simultaneously, which is much too tightly controlled to flesh out the emotion in the words...
...wider and more regular, and the stadium is bigger and more conventional. People in Baltimore do not take any one game as seriously as Boston fans; there is a sense of permanence and resilience about the Orioles in Baltimore that would be utterly lost to the torrent of flesh that anguishes its way down Brookline Avenue after a Red Sox loss. When the Orioles lose, the boulevard outside does not ring with tragedy. Nothing is as precarious as the short-left field wall in Boston might convince...
Only six days after the threat to his life by Squeaky Fromme, President Ford last week was back doing what comes naturally: plunging into the crowds and pressing flesh with the people. It was the familiar rite-but this time there were some unsettling differences...