Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always been a classic mismatch: impervious electronics v. mortal flesh. The computer bills the consumer incorrectly. The consumer writes a letter of protest. The computer ignores the message and all further pleas while grimly sending out tougher and tougher dunning notes and threatening to whistle in the lawyers. The hapless customer may struggle for years to break through the cordon of computers and get to a human being who can understand the problem...
...bill within 90 days, the charge will be forfeited if it is $50 or less. What is more, the harried consumer can bring suit for civil damages and collect a minimum of $100 from a firm that violates the act. To give the creditors time to add some flesh and blood to their operation, the law will not go into effect until a year from...
...Bangladesh, there are barely rations to provide even gruel for the starving in Dacca's crowded refugee camps. Children are so emaciated-their flesh clinging to their brittle bones-that they almost look like deformed infants. Shortages of vitamin A, iron and iodine in India and Bangladesh are increasing the incidence-especially among the young-of goiter, blindness and cretinism...
...calisthenics, spending an hour every morning hardening his gut by doing sit-ups with his legs held up at a 45 degree angle or while his limbs were pumping back and forth in a bicycle-pedaling motion. Now he was simply letting Foreman punch himself out against that iron flesh. "I wanted to make him shoot his best shots," said Ali later...
Sargent pressed the flesh well. At a press conference in Braintree last week, he shook every hand in the room though he was already behind schedule...