Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easy," said the brash medical student, "the pins go through his skin a bit, and into his flesh, but you notice how fat he is, don't you, and how loose his skin is? Well, that means the pins don't hurt nearly so much as you think they...
Ordinary people, before & after the prisoner of Chillon's day, have had little difficulty visualizing the look of men imprisoned by oppressors. Stories and pictures-from Dachau to the trial of Cardinal Mindszenty-keep the human image fresh: men of flesh & blood, sometimes vacant-eyed and shuffling, with faces white from lack...
...verse is lively, flowing, and unusually beautiful at times. The best way to demonstrate Mr. Alfred's fine amalgam of poetry and speech is to quote:"Can't you remember Troy? The men dead in the streets, the flesh of hips forced up by the hard cobbles? Law died with them. . . The image of Troy's order lies decaying in over twenty-thousand dead men's eyes." Sometimes, Mr. Alfred injects humor which heightens the tone of the tragedy; Cassandra says, "Lift that thing off him." "He's naked ma'am." "Is that what you call Greek reason." His transitions...
...swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh...
When the government of Israel worked out a system of meat rationing, no one thought it odd to find pork on a restricted list reserved for diplomatic missions and Christian residents. Most Israeli Jews, whether orthodox in religion or not, prefer kosher meat to the traditionally forbidden flesh of pigs. As the food situation grew worse, however, the supplies of kosher meat ran low, and the government did not have the foreign exchange to import all it needed. Three months ago, in a desperate effort to maintain Israelis' fortnightly meat ration, the government allocated some locally grown pork...