Word: viscera
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bank. In advance showings in 14 states where nudity is permitted on the screen, Slimmer has grossed more than $400,000. However, the film is not likely to do so well in states where the moviegoer is not allowed to encounter the facts of life vis-á-viscera. When the love scenes are excised, there is not much of any sort of interest in this childishly rebellious business about young love and old prejudices. The horse it flogs was flogged to death by North European intellectuals half a century and more ago; in modern Sweden unwed mothers are paid...
...judicial ladder. In the case of Marie Besnard, accused poisoner of 13 relatives and friends, the juge d'instruction was a 26-year-old, newly promoted from clerk, who never visited the scene of the crime, sent out to the local grocery for canning jars to hold the viscera of the 13 alleged victims, and the jars ended so badly mixed up no one was sure which was which. But he kept Marie Besnard in jail for five years in "preventive detention.'' The 28-year-old juge d'instruction investigating young Brazilian playboy Jonsine da Silva...
...than the Red Heads, were somewhat more advanced. They made beads out of steatite, had nicely barbed spears, and ate green abalone instead of red. Both cultures, Dr. Orr believes, flourished 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. Apparently, the Black Bottom mortuary custom was to take out the viscera and fill the abdominal cavity with black clay. The color eventually spread to the bones...
...what he was looking for. Before he was 40 he was one of the world's foremost mining engineers ("My aggregate income . . . probably exceeded that of any other American engineer"), an operator of rich ore and gem mines in almost every corner of the earth, a multimillionaire whose viscera felt the first gentle urgings of philanthropy. When World War I came, Hoover, summering in England, became by accident the founder of a committee to get stranded Americans back home...
...selecting Winston Churchill as Man of the Half-Century, TIME'S vision is matched by its viscera; for, mark you, the fanatical followers of FDR will shower you with brickbats and dead cats...