Word: skin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...example, in New Jersey by Apiarist Henry Brown. Because Brown's bees (like Feedham's) have stingers, but fail to use them through indolence or good nature, apiarists do not recognize them as stingless. A truly stingless bee (which protects itself by spitting a caustic, skin-burning liquid) is the Genus Trigona of Central America, which produces a watery, vile-tasting "honey...
...points out, had a double quality. Its pictures of the period were brilliantly illustrative: e.g., "a boy drawing gasoline out of an automobile tank so that a girl can clean her satin shoe ... a young fellow sitting in his B.V.D.s after a bath running his hand down his naked skin in indolent satisfaction . . . two bucks from a pump-and-slipper dance throwing hash by the handful around Childs' at 6 a.m." But now the stories were increasingly marked by what Rosenfeld calls Fitzgerald's sense of "the quality of brutishness, of dull indirection and degraded sensibility running through...
Summer weather and human nature presumably had something to do with the national display of legs and skin. But the effect on U.S. and British troops was exactly what the Field Marshal feared. "If you leave your hat on, and don't smile," said G.I.s, "it's not fraternization...
Five got through her fighter cover and her wildly crackling antiaircraft fire. Four of them smashed into her. The fifth plane, knocked into the sea, freakishly bounced into her side and exploded, rupturing her skin near the waterline. Flaming gasoline spewed across her hangar deck. One bomb penetrated four decks, wiping out living quarters. Fire swept the forward part of the flight deck...
Planes parachuted three copies of the note into the enemy positions. But the likeness which Buckner saw between himself and the unnamed Japanese commander was not even skin-deep. The enemy, with 32½ hours in which to decide, let the opportunity pass. The surrender proposal was ignored; Buckner's troops went on with the killing...