Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hubs before we called our trip quits. But that wasn't til Tuesday morning when all was grey and cold and clammy and out rotting elk head lashed to the front of the van stunk of urine and flung in our grimy, dog-tired faces chunks of what little flesh remained on its fly-picked skull. Friday was wide and sun-strung. We headed for interstate 80. We made good time and crossed the country...
Congratulations to TIME for injecting flesh and blood into the statues of the American Revolution. You have presented those figures as human beings, wrestling with not-so-unfamiliar problems, experiencing the human emotions-with nobility and banality, wisdom and foolishness, courage and fear-that we know, and out of all this, planting the seed of history's greatest democracy. You permitted us to see that our founding fathers were not larger than life, except in the ideals that inspired them. This is an invaluable lesson for our time. Thanks for teaching it with such lively imagination...
...poetry--the broad-backed hippopotamus?" he asked his companions, a little quizzically. Then he proceeded to rattle off three or four stanzas: The broad-backed hippopotamus Rests on his belly in the mud; Although he seems so firm to us He is merely flesh and blood...
...occurred to me that, within this context, donating blood took on the dimension of a socially leveling process. In such a socially stratified place as Harvard, where each element conforms to its designated position in the hierarchy, it is easy to forget that we are all made of flesh and, of course, blood. Donating blood linked us in a way that no other Harvard function possibly could; the blood of a kitchen worker was worth just as much as that of the most world-famous professor...
Unlike some of the 1972 participants-the race was not run in 1973 and 1974-this year's Cannonballers seemed a sobersided, gum-chewing lot. (In the previous race, three women drivers wore flesh-tight pink suits, and three males dressed as priests but got ticketed nonetheless.) The only out-of-the-way vehicle entered was a Travco mobile home with three drivers who, between turns at the wheel, were served soufflé Romano, fettucini and cannelloni by an Italian chef. They made the trip in 45 hr. 36 min. and celebrated with Chianti...