Word: skin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with which he deals effectively?right up to the happy ending there is never a second when suspense has been neglected or overemphasized, or when the telling loses its quick, easy rhythm or becomes incredible. Best shot: Powell pushing his hands into a mill-roller to tear the skin off his police-recorded fingertips...
Fully as loud are the clamors of those who oppose the second possible development. They picture Harvard as a future real estate development with all the streets named "Main Street", all the suburban dwellers called "Babbits", all the students "brothers under the skin", and all the inmates of various, races, creeds, economic standing, social preeminence, intellectual interests and oddities--in fact all kinds and characters forced into one big family, which is supposed, unlike most families, to be free from dissension. The great cry is aimed at the supposed sacrifice of "individuality". This point of view is that...
...long as they could. As they crouched in their lanes, digging their spikes into the cinders to make the little pits that sprinters need to leap from if they do not use blocks, the raw air seemed to tighten up the muscles beneath Tolan's ebony skin. The pistol cracked. In a fraction of a second the first hunched, speed-gathering strides were over. Somehow Simpson had drawn a yard and a half in front. He was running in his famed "classic" style, his head back, his knees pumping out and up. Tolan, built so close to the ground...
...Rocky Mount, N. C., Irma Morris, 4, peeled an onion with her teeth. When the onion skin slipped, Irma Morris' head jerked back, causing her neck to break...
...should suspect cancer if the patient has any lump, any persistent sore on the skin, persistent hoarseness, indigestion, or loss of appetite, or any disorder of the bowels over forty years...