Word: viscera
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...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...
...roar increases to thunder as the turbine gathers speed. Then it diminishes slightly, masked by a strange, high snarl that is felt rather than heard. This is "ultrasonic" sound (a frequency too high for the ear to hear). It tickles the deep brain, punches the heart, makes the viscera tremble. Few men like to stay in a test room when a jet is up to speed...
Relapsing malaria is difficult to cure because the tiny parasites that cause the disease lurk in the viscera, where they are hard to reach with drugs. SN 13,274 is the best of a long series of drugs that researchers have developed as improvements on quinine and atabrine. Dr. Elderfield hopes that supplies of the drug will soon be available for nearly half a million ex-G.I.s who have had relapses of malaria...