Word: shrunken
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shrunken head swinging from his watch-chain which arrests one when speaking with Professor Jason Quaeritor, Harvard's leading authority on the Jivarro Indians of the Orinoco Valley. Professor Quaeritor is well known as Harvard's Malinowski and Margaret Mead, combined into one, as it were. He patted the the miniscule head and took a deep breath on a blow gun he has rigged up as a pipe...
...Thus the Soviets would strive to achieve at least a favorable 'draw' by occupying the Eurasian continent, and exploiting such resources as might still be available to restore some of the Soviet Union's losses. The shrunken and devastated Free World would be entirely relegated to the Western Hemisphere...
...might have got away. When a crime was committed nearby, rail-thin (5 ft. 8 in., 140 Ibs.), mild-looking, mild-spoken Eddie Gein sometimes said he had done it. His hearers laughed. To a neighbor-storekeeper's son, Bob Hill, Gein showed what he called "a couple of shrunken heads" that he said a friend had sent him from the Philippines...
...money, the deprivation that most troubled Freud in postwar Vienna involved cigars. Imported ones were unobtainable in near-bankrupt Austria, so visiting analysts smuggled them in. Though he knew that his jaw cancer might have been caused by smoking, Freud would not quit on that account. With his shrunken tissues and "the monster" interfering, he sometimes had to pry his mouth open with a clothespin to get the cigar in. Even so, he enjoyed up to four a day. At one time, when he had heart trouble marked by anginal pain, he quit smoking and boasted of this...
ROMAN TALES, by Alberto Moravia (229 pp.; Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $3.75), seems to concern the ignoblest Romans of them all. Moravia's people live in small tenement rooms, work in brickyards, junkyards and poor taverns by the summer-shrunken Tiber. On Moravia's showing, at least, it is easy to see how their ancestors managed to run the world with very little show of conscience. Yet, though Moravia's characters lack conscience-though they are bent on mean personal advantage and are forever trying to trip their fellows into the gutter-they are all also victims themselves...