Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grow. Often mercilessly abusive ("I see where J. Edgar Hoover has written a book. I think it's called How to Turn In Your Friends to the FBI for Fun and Profit"), sometimes sharply on target ("The reissue title of this paperback book is Here Is My Flesh, which originally appeared as An Introduction to Accounting"), Sahl flays both political left and right, freewheels through a labyrinth of rambling asides to his punch lines...
...refreshing to learn that the destiny of this nation is being partially guided through the complexities of the atomic age by one who can evaluate character by "pressing the flesh and looking them in the eye." Dinosaurs, move over...
Under hypnosis, the patient was told by Psychiatrist Kelsey to put his left arm across his abdomen and lock it. He did-so successfully that attendants could not move it. Kelsey added: Keep the arm there until the command "unlock it" is given. Surgeon Barron attached the abdominal flesh to the wrist, and the patient kept his arm in place for three weeks while the graft took. The next stage was tougher: the graft was cut loose from the abdomen, and the arm was laid across the drawn-up right foot. Again, the same commands. After plastic surgery under...
...mundi, a scorn for the ordinary pleasures and privileges of life. The language is no longer Latin but mathematics, and this is the universal tongue in which the higher rituals of the order are conducted all over the earth. The candidate who presents himself for ordination must mortify the flesh through long years of labors in the laboratory. His reward is membership in a community which holds powrer and profit in contempt in its zealous devotion to a higher...
...word "sow" is the "full-grown female of the swine." Therefore, I question the type of "priestly inauguration" held in Jerusalem between 73 and 63 B.C. that served "oysters" (no scales or fins) and "mussels" (no scales or fins) and "sow's udder" (Thou shalt not eat the flesh of any animal that doth not chew the cud nor have a cloven hoof). Will you please explain what type of "priest" was inaugurated at the "sumptuous repast" referred to by Author O'Brien in The Bible Cookbook [March...