Word: scars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decided on the arm, and not the leg, in order to be spared the bother of shaving my new upper lip. We chose a piece of skin bounded on one side by a vaccination mark and on the other by the faint scar of what are now my upper lids." Thus in January 1941, back again in hospital four months after he had been brought down in flames, ex-Spitfire Fighter Hillary confronted his personal problem of post-war reconstruction. For Richard Hillary the war was over...
...Surgery-rooting but polyps, or carving windows in clogged nasal passages-is often "underdone . . . not completed." Scar tissue may grow in, choke up the opening. When done thoroughly, an operation may bring great relief in breathing. But, said Dr. Grove, since there are eight nasal sinuses all told, fixing one may not cure or prevent disease in the others...
...tall, huge-nosed Huguenot, Peter Portal has always been a driving man. His first hobby was speed on two wheels, and his first job in World War I was as a motorcycle dispatch rider. He still bears a scar over his left eye because one night he ran his motorcycle right into the back of a truck. Later he took up flying, which was faster. His promotions in the R.A.F. were rapid...
...campaign. Lyndon Johnson, 32, the New Deal's candidate, suffered the awful fate of Wendell Willkie-his voice gave out just as he began a whirlwind speaking tour. If anybody looked strong it was Gerald Mann, 34, Attorney General, who still carries about his eyes a mass of scar tissue from the days when he was a football hero at Southern Methodist University, the first great All-American and forward passer from the Southwest...
Says she: "My main interest was in getting a good story. If it weren't for the scar, there wouldn't be any story. . . . There are too many pretty women in pictures, anyhow...