Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back. It had saved from extinction North America's biggest wild bird, the trumpeter swan. Once the trumpeters ranged over much of the U.S., flying in grand formations like long-necked B-295. But their brilliant white plumage and 8-ft. wingspread made them barndoor targets. Their flesh was tasty, their feathers salable...
...15th to the 19th Century. Standouts were six casual masterpieces by the 15th-Century Florentines, who drew mostly in sepia and silverpoint (indelible). Trained to make each stroke right the first time, men like Michelangelo, Filippino Lippi and Verrochio looked long and hard before translating their models' flesh into thin lines. Their looser chalk studies, like Michelangelo's Libyan Sibyl, showed the same supreme accuracy...
Manhattan Psychiatrist Frederic Wertham had undergone, while conscious, two serious operations for dangerous blood vessel conditions in his legs. Due to the nature of his illness, scopolamine, the "truth drug," was given instead of an anesthetic. While the surgeon's knife cut into his flesh, Psychiatrist Wertham enthusiastically dictated to a hovering stenographer a stream-of-consciousness description of his mental processes...
Finally trapped by reporters last week, harassed Inventor Stiles said that the new hand will not be finished for another five weeks. It will be covered with a soft, lifelike, flesh-colored plastic which ought to look and behave like the real article...
...hopeful readiness. While waiting, "once a year in New York [Doc] found a woman whose body was slim and whose hair was fair and whose eyes were grey and he took her to bed, and for an instant out of all time he let himself believe that her flesh was the color of ripe wheat...