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Jean Boewet thought human blood too costly a fertilizer. He went on: "I stand here and think about all the blood from so many corners of Europe which was spilled over this plain. Every month someone digs up a new skeleton. They can usually tell by the buttons of his uniform whether he was French, British, Prussian, Belgian or Dutch...
...taken out the dusty old skeleton of the dispute with Britain over the Falkland (Islas Malvinas) Islands (TIME, March 1) and rattled it for all it was worth, capped it all by making good on his promise to get the British railroad proprietors out of Argentina...
...ascended to the starting point high above the village was a local boy, a sturdy, tough-looking Italian, Nino Bibbia, whose father runs a fruit& -vegetable shop in St. Moritz. Nino lay down on the iron framework of his toboggan, crash helmet in place, and shoved off. His "skeleton" (as Alpine tobogganers call their steel-runnered sleds) slithered dangerously down the famous ice chute, whose turns have sporty names like Scylla, Charybdis and Battledore...
...spiked boots. For a fleeting second, he could see the white panorama of St. Moritz, and directly below-extending a sinister invitation-the village cemetery. One false move would put him in it. A few yards further, he roared into a sharp right turn, had no trouble until his skeleton sled went too high into Shuttlecock. With a desperate jerk, he brought it down. Said he afterwards: "I still had two fingers of space between the edge of the bank and the runner of my skeleton-that's just enough." An inch more and he would have crashed...
...Last year on the Don I witnessed a symbolic picture. I saw a half-filled grave, and by it lay a German helmet. In the grave lay a skeleton, only partly covered by the shreds of what was once the grey-green uniform of a German soldier. A sharp-edged fragment of a Soviet shell had shattered his face. The gaping mouth of the skeleton was filled with fertile loam and from this was already rising a curling shoot of convolvulus, bearing its delicate flowers...