Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fewer & fewer trade barriers. But, like religion in an age of unbelief, the doctrine of free trade in an age of insecurity is hard to live by. In religion, the prime problem is the devil; in politics and economics it is, respectively, the world of power and the flesh...
...Author of U.S. best-selling The World, the Flesh and Father Smith, and a public school boy himself...
Everywhere the men of the Graves Registration Service were faced with an appalling, sickening task: probing into a mixture of earth, rotting equipment and decaying flesh to find a few bones large enough to pass for the remains of the man whose name appeared on the cross above...
...Ernst's prizewinner was an expert nightmare (see cut). Runners-up: Belgian Paul Delvaux, who sent a study of three disarmingly naked, disarmingly beautiful women in a ruined, neo-classical landscape; Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, for an ulcerous omelet of flesh, fish, snakes and rodents; Salvador Dali, whose desert caravan of spider-legged elephants "carrying on their backs erotic fountains, obelisks, churches and escorials" (see cut) for once was pretty comprehensible...
...loose, if not as active, a hussy as the notorious Fanny Hill. Sample dialogue from the book: "His naked body was darker than the linen sheet on which he rested. ... I bent over him and kissed him the way he had kissed me. . . . Suddenly his teeth bit into my flesh. I gave a little moan...