Word: fleshed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those facets of his character to the exclusion of the other. Frady, who has previously delved into the lives of George Wallace and Billy Graham, shows that both aspects of Jackson's personality are not only genuine but also inextricably entangled. Jackson's lifelong task has been to put flesh on his trademark slogan, "I am somebody," which has always seemed directed as much at himself as to those he has preached...
...campaigning is the poetry of politics and governing the prose, Dole prefers the prose. She'd rather be poring over briefing books than pressing the flesh. "She's not a political person," says Mari Will. "He loves to talk about politics. She doesn't. She is very much a public servant...
...grateful for these advances in the architecture of swimwear, and I fervently await the dream suit that will be engineered to massage flesh northward from the belly to the bosom, where it will cluster in great alpine masses. The trouble is, though, that no matter how much a bathing suit can do for you, it cannot do enough. And I state this as a theoretical principle, rather than a confession of personal inadequacy. A recent issue of PEOPLE magazine revealed that even the "most beautiful stars" are not allowed to display their own bodies in nude and seminude scenes. "Body...
...just across the Laotian border. The team, code named Hadley, was supposed to gather intelligence on supply convoys traveling the Ho Chi Minh Trail, but within a day North Vietnamese soldiers began rounding up the commandos. An iron shackle was secured to Pham with a stake driven through the flesh of his leg, and he was taken north. Once in prison, he spent hours hanging upside down in the sun with his jaw held shut by a muzzle. Rats and cockroaches nibbled at the torn flesh on his leg as he spent his nights in a bare brick cell, unheated...
...slight young woman who was elected commander in chief of the students, and whose rallying cries rose above the protesters in 1989. This flesh-and-blood "Goddess of Democracy" escaped the square on June 4, just before the tanks rolled in. Hundreds, perhaps thousands, were killed, and many wonder if the decision by Chai and other leaders not to retreat ultimately led to the bloodshed; she maintains its magnitude could never have been precicted. After hiding for 10 months, Chai eventually reached France (she's saving the details of her escape for a forthcoming autobiography), and was granted political asylum...