Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...muscles. Several times he pushed a meaty shoulder against highway patrolmen, trying to force his way past. Ruddy-faced Marshal McShane, 53, is a formidable man. He won the Golden Gloves welterweight championship of New York City back in 1930, and he has since added many pounds of solid flesh. He is also a brave man who won several citations for heroism during his years as a New York cop. But he was outnumbered 20 to 1 by the troopers, some of them pretty husky too, and his scufflings with them were utterly futile, merely adding a dash of absurdity...
...Beginnings. The whole story, however, had its fascinating aspects from the very beginning, combining a dry-as-dust search through records along with the discovery of some eminently flesh-and-blood personages, especially Durie Malcolm...
Here is the Assistant Commissioner in action, as his men close in on a murderer: "A line of heavy men in soft hats walking cumbrously on tiptoe; only the Assistant Commissioner at the tail of the procession walked with natural lightness, all the useless flesh burned away by fever." In that ridiculous and wonderful fever, Greene's genius and fudge blend inextricably-each necessary, both unmatchable...
Gratuitous Slap. Thus, for the first time since he reached power, Castro had on hand flesh-and-blood soldiers...
...made editor. Without wasting a day, the Tennessean was off on a crusade. It plumped hard and loud for a proposal to roll the city and county governments into one, had the satisfaction of seeing voters in Nashville and surrounding Davidson County solidly agree. It put on more editorial flesh, sent a man to Cape Canaveral missile shoots, sent two more for a look at Russia, another man on a roving tour of Europe...