Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extremity of his suffering, starving man has tried to fill his empty belly with water, snow, wood, bark, leather, clay and even manure. Often these drastic fillers are tried when human flesh is available. "There are few acts so basically revolting as cannibalism," say Dr. Keys and his associates. "However, to eat the bodies of the dead may not seem an unreasonable last resort to save the living. Surprisingly, the practice is never very common...
...Alfred M. Frankfurter, who holds that the best U.S. paintings since World War II have been of the "expressionist" school. For Frankfurter, expressionism is a broad enough term to include both Hyman Bloom, who paints moldering corpses with the same loving intensity that Renoir applied to living flesh, and Lee Gatch, whose delicately tinted abstractions look almost like misty landscapes...
...dropping pieces of their chocolate covered ice cream all over them, or one can just watch the cool breezes whipping the spring fashions into shape. One can feel the trickle of cool beer running down a parched throat, feel the warm rays of the sun hitting lightly protected flesh. One can hear G. Wallace Woodworth and the Glee Club and Malcolm Holmes and the Band...
Lindsey's gadget was a thin metal shim vibrating against a metal plate set in a cow horn. It made a noise like a baby strangling and, Lindsey boasted, it would call any flesh-eating varmint-hawks, owls, coons, wolves or foxes. "They think it's a hurt rabbit," he said...
...flesh, but I have no other such...