Word: skin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clinically the most conspicuous feature was the widespread edema which first appeared on the [tops] of the feet. These became more and more swollen until the skin was tightly stretched and assumed a peculiar bluish transparency. . . . Fissures appeared [which] were readily infected. . . . Farther up the leg, the edema distends the skin; and over the lower leg especially, this has often a high glaze. The whole limb up to the groin was often [swollen]. The external genitalia were early affected by the edema...
...human being's vulnerability to electric shock is determined largely by skin resistance. Water reduces skin resistance more than a hundredfold. About the most dangerous possible electric shock is one from an ordinary, Go-cycle A.C. house circuit, received by anybody with wet hands or feet. Even at only 100 volts, it means certain death...
...broad-shouldered, 26-year-old lieutenant with atabrine-yellowed skin was over at his in-laws' bungalow. He was doing his laundry. Said he: "I've been washing shirts ever since I joined the Marines, and besides, the laundry wouldn't know how to put in the creases." Mitch Paige, professional soldier and war hero, was sprucing up for a celebration arranged by his home town...
...repellent? Yes? Then use Toujours Gai; it keeps the mosquitoes away. Remember, rub it in your delicate skin each evening as the sun goes down. Thank...
...G.I.s were slow to reciprocate the Pyle devotion. In the field Ernie, ab normally sensitive to cold, wraps his skin ny frame in as many thicknesses of non descript clothes as he can lay hands on, makes himself look like a ready-made butt for jokes. At first the G.I.s plagued the funny-looking little man unmercifully, "scrounging" (i.e., swiping) his blankets and water, knocking off his helmet to reveal the wad of toilet paper always kept there, ridiculing his passion for orderliness and his perpetual puttering, pouncing on him in howling droves when he modestly retired behind a bush...