Word: skin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. John Whorter ("Professor") Zeno, 87, "grandfather of parachuting"; near Memphis. As a handlebar-mustached young man in a skin-tight costume he thrilled crowds in the '80s by jumping from ascension balloons. "For the first 400 feet there is no movement on the part of the parachute to open," he said in 1898. . . . It is that first drop that looks hazardous and sometimes, when the parachute is faulty, it is, but not otherwise...
...happening to our force. I thought there had been an enemy air attack. That's what it looked like. The flight deck was burning from amidships, toward each end, in two lines just like two little forest fires. The whole island structure was white, as if the skin had been burned away from the flesh. I thought I saw a crowd of men standing on the after part of the flight deck, but they may have been wounded left there, or dead men. Murphy, I guess we have a lot to be thankful for. It's a little...
From every side the emaciated shuffled toward the church. The skin stretched tight over their cheekbones. Spidery fingers clutched and dragged at bags and baskets. Then each waited, telling his neighbor how only through a miracle was he or she still alive. The sun cleared the mountains and spread over the village of Arcadia. A child suddenly called out: "Here they come! Here they come...
...through the barriers of creed and religion, he entered a new realm of ecstasy. Christ possessed his soul. For three days he did not set foot in the Kali temple. On the fourth day ... he saw coming toward him a person with beautiful large eyes, serene countenance, and fair skin. As the two faced each other, a voice rang out in the depths of Sri Rama-krishna's soul: 'Behold the Christ, who shed His heart's blood for the redemption of the world, who suffered a sea of anguish for love...
...Gestapo's hostages were together in one cell. Hostage Prokosch, a famous actor, "confessed" to the "murder" because a heroic exit would let him die believing that he was a better man than his wife's lover, Hostage Lobkowitz. Hostage Preissinger, who wanted to save his skin, tried to pin the murder on Hostage Janoshik, stalwart member of the Underground movement. Dr. Wallerstein, psychoanalyst and Hostage No. 5, asked only that he be allowed to record the psychological behavior of his four doomed mates, so that his memory would live as the author of a unique case history...