Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Give and Take. There was no gimmickry in his playing either. Bach's Partita in E minor had real flesh and blood...
...revolution is fought by flesh and blood men, not by saints, and every revolution ends with the creation of a new privileged class. I assure you that if I had not been a man able to take advantage of his breaks, I would still be scratching corn-rows in Michoacán, and just as my father was, I would be satisfied...
...more concerned with survival than speed. Worse yet, the winds screaming down from the Matanuska Glacier swept the snow cover off long stretches of the road ways, and the gravelly pavement destroyed many of the steel skis. Repairs were all but impossible in the sub-zero weather, since the flesh of the snowmobilers' hands tended to freeze to the metal of their machines. Several snow mobiles were blown off the road and down steep embankments. One competitor suffered a broken pelvis when he lost control and veered into a bridge abutment. Frostbite claimed dozens more...
...Flesh and Bone. Such a sober, even cynical analysis of man does not fit well with his image of himself as a civilized and cultured being. Yet within the past decade, this rough vision of man as a relative of the primates one step removed from the jungle has been put forward by a number of behavioral scientists working in such fields as genetics, neurophysiology and primatology. Says Anthropologist Robin Fox of Rutgers, whose specialty is the sexual conduct of man the animal: "We are only beginning to understand the implications of extending to behavior the same kind of analysis...
...visited 198 post offices in 48 states and covered a total of 89,000 air miles since his appointment last April. At most stops, Government-paid photographers snapped pictures of Watson shaking hands with postal employees while an aide clicked a counter each time Watson pressed the flesh. Last handshake count: 69,725. If urged, Watson will admit that he saved the Postal Department $10 million last year. What matter if the postal service's deficit is still running at more than $1 billion a year? After all, L.B.J. once called Watson "as wise as my father, as gentle...