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the fatty flesh of eel

voracious snakelike marine or freshwater fishes with smooth slimy usually scaleless skin and having a continuous vertical fin but no ventral fins

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I shall take no bite of your body, Bottle in which I live, [...] Off, off, eely tentacle!
(268.) E.g., Baird, supra note 111; Fortgang & Mayer, supra note 179; see also David Gray Carlson, Secured Creditors and the Eely Character of Bankruptcy Valuations, 41 AM.
In "Medusa," a poem written within a day after "Daddy," the persona spitefully rejects the "old barnacled umbilicus" of the maternal figure who is never explicitly referred to, but always metaphorically hinted at as a "God-ball," a "lens of mercies," an "Atlantic cable," a "Tremulous breath at the end of my line," a "placenta/ Paralysing the kicking lovers," "Cobra light," "Bottle in which I live,/Ghastly Vatican," an "eely tentacle" (Plath 1989: 224-5).
The training CEO Mubeen told that it was part of the EELY project of Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, which KADO is implementing through its indigenous leadership and Development Program, in collaboration with the Golden Jubilee Organization for Local Development (LSO of Aliabad, Hasanabad and Murtazabad).
20, 2010, available at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-0920/bankruptcy- turnarounds- menaced-by-investor-valuation-fights-lifland-says.html (explaining perils of valuation fights among stakeholders in Chapter 11 and noting that "[c]ompanies trying to rehabilitate themselves through bankruptcy are threatened by valuation fights among late-arriving investors"); see also David Gray Carlson, Secured Creditors and the Eely Character of Bankruptcy Valuation, 41 Am.