Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...realize, however, that a simple-minded attempt to become an African or an Asian peasant by adopting the outward forms of their life will not accomplish any constructive purpose. No matter what he does, he is not an African; he will remain an American, and no mortification of the flesh will change that fact. Leaving aside for the moment considerations of health and nutrition, it is certain that any American who tries to live in a grass hut and subsist on yams and termites will soon find himself ostracized by his colleagues at his own professional level, who will invariably...
...hunted. The two men squatted bareheaded on the ground, observed 15 minutes of silence in memory of the fallen grouse. Then Johnson slung his 10-lb. prize over his shoulder and headed for a taxidermist. For though the Auerhahn makes a fine trophy, it is frightful table fare: its flesh has a decided flavor of turpentine...
...Eichmann to ease up because he was receiving more human "freight" than he could conveniently kill. At Majdanek. the tall, tapering crematorium chimneys belched flame day and night until "a light dust lay over the whole city" of Lublin. At Auschwitz, even Eichmann noted that the smell of burning flesh "was not very pleasant.'' On May 29, 1942. Czech partisans hurled a grenade at Eichmann's boss. Reinhardt Heydrich, near Lidice. His spine was severed, and it took him six days to die. In revenge, all the men of Lidice were killed on the spot. Eichmann sent...
...will filed for probate at his adopted home of White Plains, N.Y., the late Australian-born Pianist-Composer Percy Grainger made a bizarre request: "that my flesh be removed from my bones and the flesh destroyed," with the skeleton to go to the University of Melbourne "for preservation and possible display in the Grainger Museum." But the remains of the eccentric creator of Country Gardens, interred in the family plot in Adelaide after his death last February, may never get to Melbourne. Explained his U.S. attorney: "By law a person cannot bequeath his body. The remains belong to the next...
Reporters, trying to put some flesh on the bare bones of official handouts, interviewed Valentina Gagarina in her two-room-and-kitchen apartment near Moscow. The place was bulging with excited neighbors, and as the newsmen arrived, word came over the radio that Valentina's husband felt fine. She turned off the radio and wiped away her tears, while her older daughter nibbled stolidly on an apple. Valentina explained that the whole affair was news to her; she had not even known her husband was a major until she heard it on the radio. She had known, she said...