Word: fingernails
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...that he seemed to have a thick skin. As the baby grew, his skin darkened and hardened to a black, rough casing over his whole body except the chest, neck and face. It was covered with close-set black bumps; between them the skin was as hard as a fingernail, and if it was bent it cracked and oozed bloodstained serum. Someone cruelly dubbed him "the elephant boy." Doctors said he had been born with ichthyosis (fish-scale disease). Nobody knew its cause or cure...
...stood up at the society's dinner dance to receive the Order of the Green Dragon from Prince Buu Loc, he did not look like a champion. He keeled over in a dead faint. Mme. de la Füye dug her fingernail into her husband's left pinkie (hsiaochung). He stood up for a moment, then toppled again. By this time, Dr. Alexandre Guillaume had found a gold needle, and jabbed it in De la Füye's hsiaochung until the patient complained: "Hey, that hurts!" Thus revived, De la Füye accepted...
...seven years she has gained weight and now has a comfortable and matronly air. Frequently, these days, she allows herself the luxury of red fingernail polish. But Mrs. Roosevelt is still not a woman who cares for frippery-she bought only one dress, an evening gown, this winter in Paris, and then only because she forgot to bring one from New York. She uses no lipstick and no powder, and keeps nothing on her dressing table but a big, black, old-fashioned comb, a hairbrush and a faded picture of F.D.R. as a young...
Crisis Mounts. Few Britons, Conservative or Socialist, shared the Express' mood of jubilee. But practically all agreed that Tory chances for a return to power were good. Since the close vote of 1950, Labor has clung to office by a fingernail parliamentary majority (at one time as narrow as three). For months, Attlee and his ministers have been watching the gathering clouds of a new economic crisis. The old demon, the dollar gap, is back. The coal mines cannot supply the demand for fuel. Electric power shortages are developing. Millions of Britons face another dreary winter of insufficient coal...
...beautifully groomed blonde leaned back and looked at us. "That row of cigars?" She waved a half-inch long fingernail. "There's two hundred to two-fifty of them right here!" she stated. We looked again. A dozen rows contained nothing but overweight middle-aged men, two-thirds of them smoking cigars and half of them wearing straw hats...