Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third hand, and neither the snake nor the actual person who saw it can be located! Some years ago, R. L. Ditmars, curator of reptiles at the Bronx Zoo and one of the world's foremost experts on snakes, made an offer of $1,000 for a skin in excess of 40 ft., but no such skin ever materialized. Dr. Afrānio do Amaral, director of the Butantan Institute (snake farm) in Sao Paulo, has reported an anaconda a little over 25 ft. in length, and this appears to be the world's record...
...including a singles sweep from 1920 to 1925, three Wimbledon titles (he was the first American to win in England), eleven Davis Cup teams, including a phenomenal stretch from 1920 to 1925 when he never lost a match. Only one player ever got under Tilden's weather-beaten skin: France's Rene Lacoste, one of the famed "Four Musketeers" who wrested the Davis Cup from the U.S. in 1927. Remarked haughty Bill Tilden: "The monotonous regularity with which that unsmiling, drab, almost dull man returned the best I could hit ... often filled [me] with a wild desire...
...most case-hardened doctors sat on the edge of their chairs at color movies of Chicago's little Siamese twins, which included close-ups of their brains as Neurosurgeon Oscar Sugar sorted out the mixed-up blood vessels, and details of the long and complicated series of skin grafts (TIME, Dec. 29 et seq.). Also for the professional audience only was a sequence of the surviving twin, Rodney Brodie, sitting happily alone in a playchair, though the top of his head bulged under the pressure of the brain against its light covering of skin and fuzzy hair...
Strange Deception. An allegorical manhunt with a postwar Italian setting, powerfully filmed by Novelist Curzio (The Skin) Malaparte (TIME, June...
...attacked Senators Jenner, Velde, and McCarthy, calling the last "our modern grand inquisitor," a "dangerous and ruthless demagogue" who "has used the technique of insinuation against innocent people and debauched the Senate's power of investigation by introducing authorization practices that are skin to the communism which he professes to hate...