Word: skin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dependence on Allied good will. Franco is still a Fascist. But he is not the Franco of 16 months ago; he is a man on a spot, compelled to look at the growing certainty of Allied victory, compelled to find, if he can, a way to save his Fascist skin...
Said Plastic Surgeon Robert H. Ivy of Philadelphia, who was an Army surgeon in World War I: "Many times in the closure of a cut on the face, very coarse, deep sutures [stitches] including the skin and deeper tissues have been placed with a heavy needle. These later leave broad scars." (The proper method is to stitch the lower layer of a wound, then fasten the skin edges together with a fine thread...
...Burned areas should have new skin as soon as possible, but not pinch grafts (obtained by lifting bits of skin on a pin point and cutting them free with a scalpel), which seldom look well and often allow the surface to contract - the very faults grafting is supposed to remedy...
...night you can sleep in an A-deck suite whose decorations may include peach glass and python-skin fabrics. . . . You open the bathroom door by a plastic composition knob that is warm to the touch. . . . In one ballroom indirect colored lights change automatically with varying tunes of the dance orchestra...
Sailors from Pearl Harbor and soldiers from Africa have spent long weeks in hospitals suffering from flash burns covering big areas of skin. A sailor stripped to the waist burns much worse than one wearing a skivvy shirt. So the Navy now tries to make men keep their shirts on in battle. The new cream covers the places clothing cannot-hands and face...