Word: viscera
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Veronica loved the Count "with the harmonious turbulence of all her viscera." But the Count was still in love with Solange (he had left her in France). He had only "a sentimental veneration for [Veronica's] vacant, meningitic stare," though he liked to surprise her "by refined flashes of turpitude." Soon, "life became like a bath in a tepid lake." "If one day I decided to kill myself," mused the Count. "I should choose the moment immediately after the radio had announced the despairing and inexorable phrase, 'Bulova Watch Time...
...wars of the 20th Century have twice balked quatercentenary celebrations of Vesalius (born in 1514) and his book. But, war or no war, the Medical Library Association has now printed a Vesalius Number of its Bulletin. The majestic, often astounding full-page delineations of skeletons, muscles, veins and viscera found in the Fabrica* are generally attributed to Jan van Calcar, Flemish pupil of Titian. But Andreas Vesalius, to a certain extent an unscrupulous self-promoter, brought his book out with no credit to his collaborator...
...Sensitivity of the eye, like that of other sense organs, decreases with distention of the viscera. "It is important in responsible reconnaissance operations that the visceral organs of the abdomen and the pelvis should not be overcongested...
...Bill Cunningham in which the Herald columnist takes a snipe at "those mighty minds" who "do the heavy thinking, while somebody else does the heavy fighting." To get the most out of a man, Professor Perry asserts, you must enlist his reason and his conscience as well as "his viscera and blistering hands." This means keeping the ultimate goal of a just peace in mind, as well as the immediate goal of victory...
...preservation of thought relating to our goals and objectives. Perhaps it is the fault of the times, but such an argument rings academically hollow. We have already agreed--our side is right--but it will remain as a side at all only if the "blistering hands and viscera" continue to work side by side with the ideas of the world to come...