Word: flesh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said I did and we said nothing for a little while so I started looking at the others in the car. Chuck caught my attention first: He was 17 years old, a chunky kid, inclined to fat so that his features seemed to melt back into his flesh. But his nose stuck out a little, his thick lower lip was giving him a permanent pout, and his eyes were slits. The rest of his face was flat and square, like his body. He had curly black hair, close to his head, and wore a striped T-shirt. His face...
...dead? He paces and leans behind the counter: Ezekiel in the valley of the dry bones, you've red it, I know you have, how the Lord told Ezekiel to speak and then Ezekiel he spoke and the bones took on sinew and the bones took on flesh. Or the tale of Balaam's ass. Or about the devil going to and fro in the earth: Yessir the devil is goin to and fro making his work. Making the work of hell...
...Solzhenitsyn began to hear the appalling stories of the survivors. Recalling one of the horrors recounted to him by an ex-prisoner, Solzhenitsyn writes, "A crazed P.O.W. might have crawled up to me, too, as I was dying, and gnawed the flesh off my elbow ... Listening to such things, the story of my own arrest seemed to me insignificant...
...bomb contains 600 to 700 guavas, each of which releases high-speed steel pellets upon explosion, as well as hot plastic fragments which are undetectable by X-rays when embedded in the body. These pellets can't pierce steel, cement, or sandbags--they are designed to tear unprotected human flesh. One mother bomb can saturate an area the size of ten football fields with lethal shrapnel. Time-delay fuses are designed to explode some bomblets before they hit the earth so as to kill those sheltered in trenches; other bomblets don't explode until well after the air raid, when...
...hair, yang of her body, therefore male and ugly, attributing the yangness to 22 years to meat-eating she stuck to the diet and clawed at the hair on her stomach. Macrobiotics had become self-hypnotic: Kimberly would purge herself of the poisons of a lifetime by starving her flesh...