Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dogs are perhaps the most melancholy in their looks; of all dogs, the slouching basset hound is the most sad. Of all basset hounds, none is more woebegone, more tragic than a certain basset hound puppy. Last week he sat nuzzling his weak chin into the loose bib of flesh which an arbitrary heredity has draped around his neck...
...anonymous letter-writer-presumably a refugee who had wandered upstairs-recently wrote health officials in nearby Bad Segeberg, urging them in horror to hurry out and take a look in a room in Steenbock's attic. What the health officers found there was enough to make their flesh crawl: half-dead on a filthy mattress huddled a tiny, emaciated creature that looked less like a child than some weird variety of furless monkey. It was about 3 ft. tall, weighed less than 20 Ibs. Long, black hair hung in greasy strings around its shriveled face. It was too weak...
...pilot. If his cabin should lose its pressurizing, he would die just as quickly (about 15 seconds) as if he were in the vacuum of space. At a slightly higher altitude (63,000 ft.), his warm blood would boil, making his flesh swell up with bubbles like cookies baking in an oven...
...Flesh Is Weak. In Minneapolis, while the Rev. Arley Bragg of the Central Free Church spoke on "Bad Hearts and Poor Eyes," the Rev. Richard Clearwaters of the Fourth Baptist Church spoke on "Hanging Hands and Weak Knees...
Then one day, working on a customer's coat, Govind was horrified to discover that he had sewed his fingertip to the cloth and didn't even feel it. Another day he smelled burning flesh, saw his own toes pressed against a flatiron, yet felt no pain. When the doctors cleared up the mystery, Govind had to swap his tradesman's heaven-on-earth for what he was sure would be leper's hell...