Word: skin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...typical angry U.S. reactions, thoroughly documented by reports from correspondents all over the U.S. It probably came to the tongues of many men in its strongest meaning-one of moral censure rather than race prejudice-for "yellow" has long been the word for cowardice and treachery. As for actual skin-color, U.S. white, pink or pale faces may well be proud to be fighting on the side of Chinese, Filipinos and other yellow or brown faces...
...reclining position. Keep a victim lying down. If his bones are broken, movement may cause them to cut nerves and blood vessels, tear through the skin. Moving a victim with a broken back may cause death. Even after a man has been saved from drowning and given artificial respiration, he should be kept lying down lest he strain his heart...
...first concert (with the New York Philharmonic) since he burned the forefinger of his right hand. To protect his fingers from cracking, he had put on collodion, a bandage. Then he lit a cigaret. When he ripped off the burning bandage, he ripped off a layer of the "new skin," a layer of real skin, postponed a tour to Dallas and Chicago...
Unhappy too were Nisei, the 79,642 native-born citizens of the U.S. who are descendants of Japanese. Said a young Nisei with yellow skin, slant eyes, and a college education: "Over there I'd be a coolie. Over here...I have enough money to own a car, I can talk to any man. Over here, by God, we believe enough in what we have to fight Japan." But panic was in his heart. Would other U.S. citizens know the difference...
...cabbage, string beans, kohlrabi or turnips. Their diet is deficient not only in energy content, but in calcium (necessary for bones and teeth), protein (essential for tissues), vitamins A, C and D. Hence many suffer from osteomalacia (softening of the bones), scurvy, anemia, severe rickets, infantile tetany (convulsions), horny skin, tuberculosis. Unlike the U.S., North China has little vitamin B deficiency, for the roughly milled flours are rich in vitamin B elements...