Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Salt Pork, Southern Style...
...store, in the days before the AAA messed the cotton business up with red tape, we sold "salt pork" under name of "bacon," "side bacon," and, to the vulgar, "sow belly." That was the only meat we sold and, naturally, I assume that it is your fatback...
Kaputt (German for "broken, finished, gone to pieces") is the readable and often brilliant distillation of Malaparte's war experience. Italian diplomats and newsmen say: take it with salt, especially his cloying, new-found love of suffering humanity, his suspiciously detailed and too melodramatic recital of fast-moving events. But whatever their worth as history, these tenuously connected yarns have the quality of horrible legends recited against the feverish background of Europe's moral decay...
...painting and sculpture, the price had been comparatively small. The Germans had destroyed or stolen some $2,000,000,000 worth of art, but most of the movable stuff eventually turned up in cellars and salt mines and in the private collections of top Nazis. One first-rank painting had been destroyed by bombing: Mantegna's frescoes painted on plaster in the Eremi-tani church at Padua...
Power of the salt sea's wave...