Word: rashness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issue you mentioned a 60-year-old Philadelphia woman who got a skin rash after gathering cashew nuts in Ceylon. When it is picked from the tree, the cashew nut is covered with a hard tough shell that has a thin layer of black oil underneath. This oil is quite corrosive to the skin. It is in the shell, however, which is left in India -in fact is used for fuel-and is not in the kernel that...
...Texas legislature last week two senators turned the South's prime weapon against civil-rights legislation, the filibuster, to a novel use. Up from the lower house swept a rash of school segregation bills, and in an effort to stop them the protesting pair put on the longest filibuster in Texas history...
...both causes of severe skin inflammation, says the A.M.A. Journal. An Oakland (Calif.) man, 36, went to a party where the only drink served was gin and tonic, had five or six of them. Within two days his entire body was covered with a red or purplish rash, his face was unrecognizable, and his palms and soles were a mass of blisters. It took six days of treatment with cortisone, wet dressings and lotions before he could leave the hospital. Cause of his trouble: a rare, severe sensitivity to quinine. A Philadelphia woman, 60, had a bad rash after gathering...
...fuel to the anti-unionist cause seems especially unfortunate at a time when a rash of right-to-work bills are being proposed in various state legislatures. The preservation of labor's right to maintain the union shop is important if labor unions are to be effective in their negotiations. Reuther's stand only evokes further antagonism against labor...
...nudes day. At the Wilma Montesi manslaughter trial in Venice, a black-haired beauty known as the Black Swan said that in her set, boys and girls always stripped for tea. Jayne Mansfield dropped her shoulder straps to show photographers considerable acreage of a "head-to-toe" poison-ivy rash. And a New York censor ruled that an art-movie producer would have to banish his surrealist Muse or put some clothes...