Word: haunch
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After this version was published in England last fall (TIME, Nov. 3), Graves was attacked not only for trying to break the spell of the famed passages ("A jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thou" became "one mancel loaf, a haunch of mutton and a gourd of wine set for us two alone"), but also for making some scholarly blunders of his own. L. P. Elwell-Sutton, an Orientalist at Edinburgh University, maintained that the manuscript used by Ali-Shah and Graves was "a clumsy forgery." Replied Graves: "Howling nonsense." The quarrel may never be resolved, since Graves...
...puts it, "the only vice he did not practice was gambling." For another, Burton, who always referred to the proper British public contemptuously as "Mrs. Grundy," goaded the good lady abominably. On rare visits back to England he delighted in describing imaginary feasts at which he had fed on haunch of roasted baby. He invariably insisted that plural marriage was the only natural and proper wedded state for man. Rubbing his hands with glee over his new translation of the Persian love classic The Perfumed Garden (sample chapter: copulation with crocodiles), Burton chortled: "Mrs. Grundy will howl until she bursts...
Oiling the Hinges. Ever since the first cave man sealed a tribal alliance over a haunch of charred flesh and a gourdful of fermented juice, such working sessions have been as much a part of diplomacy as the formal conference. Thanks largely to his wit and disarming manner at parties, Benjamin Franklin coaxed 55 million livres out of a nearly bankrupt French government during American Revolution. Bound for the Congress of Vienna, Talleyrand told King Louis XVIII, "Sire, I have more need of casseroles than of written instructions," and his success in softening the terms imposed on his defeated nation...
...cerebri (white fibers connecting the brain's hemispheres); contusion of the frontal and temporal lobes; severe shock; fracture of nine ribs; pneumothorax (air in the pleural space around the lungs); hemothorax (blood in the same space); rupture of the pubic bone junction; fractures of the pubic, hip and haunch bones, and of the head of the left thigh bone; severe contusions of abdominal organs; rupture of the urinary bladder; paralysis of both arms and both legs; gradual failing of circulation, and gradual failing of breathing, apparently from brain damage...