Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government whose bonded indebtedness is only $30 million, one of the lowest metropolitan debts in the U.S. In this climate of civic rectitude, says Police Chief John W. Polcyn, the Journal "watches officials like a hawk. God help you if you get out of line. They take the flesh right off your bones...
...British came to fear his nonviolence more than the rifles of the Frontiersmen, and Ghaffar Khan was jailed repeatedly, serving a total of six years. Once in a British prison, his ankle was bound so tightly that the flesh became infected. He came out of jail 100 Ibs. lighter. Said he: "With love you can persuade a Pathan to go to hell, but by force you can not take him even to Heaven...
...Firebird can do 150 m.p.h. on a straight track. But motorists will probably never see it on a highway. Even though the hot gases blasted out of the Firebird's huge tail go through a cooling unit first, they are still hot enough to burn clothing or flesh several feet away. Explained G.M. President Harlow Curtice: "This is not a car of tomorrow, but a laboratory on wheels . . . We are not trying to develop overwhelming horsepower or tremendous speeds, but are trying to determine whether the turbine can be harnessed to give efficient and economical performance...
...sudden smell of burning flesh...
...forest north of Nairobi, a gang of Mau Mau terrorists struck at an African village, captured a Kikuyu tribesman known to be loyal to the British, and chopped off his head. Round their wrists the terrorists wore bangles of human skin, stripped from the flesh of earlier victims. Their commander in chief, scar-faced "General" Dedan Kimathi, had offered them $7 for every dead Kikuyu, $16.80 for every dead Briton...