Word: skeletonized
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...crowds. Spectators are called upon to help firemen squirt the blaze from a hand-pump engine. Meanwhile, a cool operator in a fireproof booth turns up the hidden gas jets, then slowly turns them down as the fire subsides, leaving on view the pre-charred timbers of skeleton buildings...
...dissecting the muscles of the abdomen proceeding thro five different layers ... Then he proceeded to dissect the head ... he made careful designs and wrote the explanation which usually employed him a whole day. He then took off another layer of muscles . . . and so proceeded until he came to the skeleton...
...Outside Skeleton. It is from the child, temporally most remote from death, that the experts got some of their most basic data. Psychologist Maria H. Nagy (now at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center) studied 378 children in Budapest in the late 19303, believes that, with minor differences, her findings can be applied to Western civilization generally...
...child does not see them. From six to nine years, most children personify death ("Carries off bad children. Catches them and takes them away"). To one child of eight, death was so real that he thought it left footprints. And to many, death is like a Halloween figure, all skeleton, or with its skeleton outside and visible...