Word: skin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Harvey Gushing, was the No. 1 blossom on the New York Dress Institute's* list of the world's ten best-dressed women. For the first time in years Mrs. Harrison Williams failed to make the list; the Duchess of Windsor was No. 10 by "the skin of her teeth...
...Manhattan show, General Electric showed how to supply the demand: a ''Copper Man" so cunningly contrived that it gets hot & cold just like a human being. This copperplated robot has a network of electric wires which, like a human being's blood system, keeps its skin at body temperature. Its life-size frame, painted black, radiates the equivalent of body heat, and the temperature of various parts of its body can be regulated to duplicate any human condition; e.g., cold feet...
...communities that want to do a real job of hating should include all Orientals, such as the Chinese and the Filipinos. Then, too, we should include those peoples whose skin is the slightest bit sunburned, including the Negroes. But why stop here ? As long as we are promoting hatred, we might just as well include other groups-the Jews, the Catholics, the Protestants who go to church, those who don't. Then if there is no one else left to hate, we can achieve 100% efficiency by hating ourselves. There is little use in doing things in a small...
...Pedro going to confession (he had slept through the Bishop's sermon, and kissed Catana Pérez). The book ends, 633 pages later, with Pedro's bride being prepared by her mother-in-law for the nuptial bed ("And breasts so haughty! . . . Such a figure, too; skin like marble. ... I don't wonder he's mad about...
...Chinese, Americans and Japanese alike. Icicles hung from the wings of Major General Claire L. Chennault's fighter-bombers, standing silent on the runways. For a hundred miles in every direction, columns of refugees and soldiers trudged through the hill paths and over roads broken by battle, their skin cracking with frostbite...