Word: skin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were willing to be in Negro units. One member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People who praised the 99th Fighter Squadron and who dared castigate critics of segregation was read out of the organization. One Negro weekly which derives advertising revenue from manufacturers of skin bleaches and hair straighteners-and which nevertheless proclaims the superiority of the Negro race-regularly inveighed against segregation at Tuskegee...
...latter years to a scheme of Asian empire which touched the Russians and the Chinese first of all, but in the close-knit world of 1942 mattered enormously to the U.S. as well. He was a short and flabby man of 57, with protruding cheekbones and a mummy-like skin, who had said of himself: "I have often been likened to a corpse on reprieve...
...severe cases there is no standard treatment, for every case is individual. Some people, for instance, suffer from a secondary invasion of staphylococcus germs into their broken skin. Others develop various types of inflammation. These conditions should all be treated by a dermatologist with specially compounded lotions and salves, X rays, various fungicides, and-very rarely-with phenol-camphor...
...tables and chairs, light maple with stiff backs, crowd the lounge, newspaper, and chess rooms; the piano sits sullenly in the entrance hall; the radio hides somewhere upstairs; and worst of all, the sanctified first floor lavatory has been opened out into the old zoo, displacing a lion's skin, and gleaming in the aluminum splendor of steam-tables a la mode...
Pinta, a tropical skin disease, caused by fungi which settle in the epidermis, permanently blotch the skin with patches of greyish violet or red. When the sickness runs its course, dark men are streaked dead white, fair men dull blue, sometimes tinged with green. (Mr. Wilson first saw green and blue men on a Colombia farm after a "night out".) Neither painful nor fatal, pinta is serious because it disfigures, is very infectious. It can be checked with antiseptic drugs, especially chrysarobin, powder obtained from a tropical tree, which is an ancient remedy of Indian herb doctors. But only tattooing...