Word: skin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other hand, Georgi Dimitrov might really be ill. He has had heart trouble and skin ailments for years. And he went on leave just as the "season" opened in the Communist elite health resorts along Russia's Black Sea coast...
...hospital and District Health Department footed hospital bills (already upward of $3,500); laboratories ran expensive tests free; the Red Cross furnished the necessary plasma. Six strangers, all servicemen, volunteered skin grafts. In December, when Mike was at his lowest, the simultaneous arrival of four enormous birthday cakes from well-wishers gave his morale a badly needed boost...
Last week, resting comfortably after three successive skin grafts, Mike heard some good news. If all goes well in the next few months, Dr. Young thinks he may be ready to go home before fall...
Besides being a notable buzzer, Chuck is a deadpan kidder. In spite of his blue eyes and fair skin, he is likely to assert solemnly that he is one-eighth Cherokee Indian. His parents say: "He's liable to tell you anything." Asked about his birthplace, Chuck says: "Ah come from so far up the holler, they had to pipe daylight...
...book has one serious fault: it is written so far downhill, presumably for the largest possible Russian audience, that the prose is sometimes little better than primer talk. The interesting thing about The Train is that Panova still finds the same kind of Russian characters under the Soviet skin...