Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FIGHTING back goose flesh, he corrected her. "They are not mittens. They are gloves. And they are not Walter's. They are Harry...
...three theatres charge $1.75 for admission--fifty cents more than the straight establishments on the street. If you measure flesh by the acre, however, this is the best buy since the Louisiana Purchase...
...registrants of Run for Your Life programs, jogging up to five miles a day, sometimes at the very respectable rate of seven minutes per mile. In thousands of gyms, yoga and dance studios, reducing emporiums and downtown athletic clubs, an uncomputed and possibly unprecedented tonnage of soft and mature flesh jiggles, bends, hops, kicks, creaks and groans. Washington's Governor Dan Evans organized the Six-Thirty Track Team, a club of state government executives who meet at that dawning hour to exercise, and as a result he was recently given the Tired Tennis Shoe Award as the individual...
...real point is that he goes to his death with pride in his blackness and with no regard for what in him is owed to inherited whiteness. That touch is convincing enough, but not the narrative style ("When first Sidney saw Beauty Beast come walking with buoyant zeal, flesh of her nature lay scorched again"). There is something wildly outdated about such plantation-patented prose...
John Hersey's Hiroshima, published in 1946, consisted of 35,000 simple, meticulously arranged and muted words that told the story of six people who, a year earlier, had survived the biggest unnatural disaster in history. In that account, eyes ran from sockets, flesh bubbled from bone, a city disappeared in a flash. Yet the damage report was not complete, as Yale Research Psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton shows in this compassionate and important study of the malaise that still pollutes the spirits of many survivors. They are known as hibakusha (pronounced hi-bak-sha), which literally means "explosion-affected...