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Word: fleshed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shorts have also been flourishing more than usual, and these will be allowed to stay. "After all, they're worn in the finest hotels," Hoadley said, "Even if they do expose a lot of ungainly flesh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams, Leverett Will Lose Informal Dining Privileges | 5/27/1955 | See Source »

...never read such a bunch of rubbish. If the Government didn't take its pound of flesh out of every paycheck, there would be a hell of a lot of people they would have to beat it out of on April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 9, 1955 | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

Electric Fence. Canadian and U.S. scientists have studied many ways of fighting the destructive lamprey, even looking into the possibility of a domestic market for the lamprey's white, tasty but highly indigestible flesh.* Of all the tested antidotes, the most workable is an electrically charged fence that can be stretched across the Great Lakes' tributary streams, into which the lampreys swim to spawn. Other fish will turn away from the electric field, but the lamprey will swim against the fence and be electrocuted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: A Surfeit of Lampreys | 5/9/1955 | See Source »

...Devil than an aging shortstop in confrontation with an alluring calorie, and is lost when the sound track weighs in with the kind of unhealthy music that passes censorship but might better be evaluated by a Wassermann test. In the end, of course, the spirit proves stronger than the flesh, and the heroine is not swived but shrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 2, 1955 | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...evidence against a powerful underworldling in return for a reduction in sentence? While Ginger thinks it over, she trollops around her hotel suite, munching breast of guinea hen and the biceps of a policeman (Brian Keith) at Government expense. When Keith declines to give his pound of flesh, Ginger growls: "You [men] are all alike. You only got different faces so we girls can tell you apart." How she can tell Keith apart from any one of a dozen other young comers in Hollywood is more than a moviegoer can say, but at least there is no doubt about Edward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 2, 1955 | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

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