Word: legless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glory costs blood. Sightless, legless, armless veterans., fill commandeered seaside and mountain resorts (one hospital for wounded in Tokyo is so big that doctors use bicycles in making the rounds). Trains stop at villages regularly to disgorge little white boxes, each containing the ashes of a boy who has died at the China Front...
...scene. Most abstract of all were: 1) a nut-&-bolt portrait by David Smith, virtuoso in scrap iron (TIME, Nov. 18); 2) a jittery, swaying mobile made out of fence wire and iron by U. S. Mobilist Alexander ("Sandy") Calder. Most arresting exhibit: a crawling, sluglike, headless, armless and legless female form in plaster with three hips, two breasts and a navel, modeled with necrophilic realism and euphemistically labeled The Span of Life, by Cleveland-born sculptor Hugo Robus. Prices ran from...
Snake Eyes. Zoologist Gordon Lynn Walls, Wayne University College of Medicine : "The snakes are known to have originated from the lizards in a relatively recent geological period, but despite the closeness of relationship, the eyes of snakes differ so much in structure from those of lizards (including modern legless ones) that no one would suspect, from the eyes alone, that a snake is any more closely related to a lizard than a cat is to a frog...