Word: skin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swine erysipelas causes unusually high temperatures (normal for swine: 103°-104° F.), stiff gait, enlarged joints, red spots on skin, sudden death. If caught early, anti-swine erysipelas serum may help...
Manhattan's erstwhile best-known gangster and beerlegger, British-born Owen Victor ("Owney the Killer") Madden, became a U.S. citizen in Hot Springs, Ark. One of the rare big-time racketeers who have retired with a whole skin, Madden moved to Hot Springs soon after he got out of Sing Sing ten years ago, now putters in his flower garden, dabbles in local uplift...
...newspapermen: "A human being confronts you and you don't regard him as a human being at all. To you he's an item with skin around...
These steps corrected some of the most flagrant conditions in North Africa and showed a desire to placate democratic opinion abroad. If the improvement continued and turned out to be more than skin-deep, Americans might yet be able to look upon their North African protégé without embarrassment...
...neck raw from chafing collar . . . the nostrils sore from running mucus. . . . There was pain in . . . the stooped shoulders straining downwards away from the pack . . . in the bent spine, in the small of the back. . . . Pain in the strung thighs, red pain in the chafed buttocks . . . in the gooseflesh skin of the thigh where a holster, or a knife in ihe trouser pocket, rubbed with the polish of dripping water." It was still dark when they stopped to rest at "a heap of stones . . . shown on the map as a farmhouse . . . many miles from any road or track...