Word: skin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even before they encounter failure, Jap soldiers are anything but supermen. They are notoriously hypochondriac. They carry little oily green cakes which they rub on the skin to keep mosquitoes away. Many carry white gloves which they wear when they sleep. They carry toilet waters and perfumed powders...
...Partisans Speak. This state of affairs, plus an Allied note of congratulation to Mihailovich from General Eisenhower (TIME, Jan. 25), got under the skin of the Partisans. Stocky, raven-haired Ivan Ribar, chief of the Partisan Free Yugoslav state, broadcast angrily: "Not only have we inflicted great losses on the Axis enemy . . . but for the first time the peoples of Yugoslavia have been united. . . . Don't let Mihailovich's agents crush our unity...
...other materials formed in infected wounds. Used in low concentrations in the blood stream, penicillin's action is bacteriostatic, i.e., it prevents bacteria from multiplying and renders them easy prey for white blood corpuscles. Penicillin solutions strong enough to kill bacteria may safely be injected under the skin near a wound or used as a dressing...
...first batches were ready for shipment to Europe when the Armistice was signed. None saw combat, but lewisite had earned a sinister name-Dew of Death-because a few drops on a man's skin were sufficient to kill. Heavier and more persistent than mustard gas, lewisite is an arsenic compound which smells like geraniums, bears the scientific name of beta-chlorvinyldichlorarsine. While mustard causes many casualties but few deaths, lewisite was expected to cause a greater proportion of deaths...
...minds for themselves." The few initiated stalwarts who had both read Finnegans Wake and seen the play, were of the opinion that Campbell & Robinson were trying to make headlines out of what should have been footnotes, were confusing influences with imitation. According to Michael Myerberg, the producer of The Skin of Our Teeth, Wilder got his idea when a chicken landed in his lap at Hellzapoppin...