Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rocco MARCHEGIANO is a simple, good-natured fellow who goes around hitting people terribly hard. He bruises their bellies, blasts the breath from their lungs, breaks the skin of their heads and generally bangs them about until, brains addled with agony, they fall unconscious. In his case it is a much-admired, and therefore profitable, habit...
...Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's unbeaten two-year-old colt Native Dancer, his sixth straight win, the 6 ½ furlong. $62,650 Hopeful Stakes, with his patented stretch spurt, to leave Greentree Stable's Tiger Skin two lengths behind; in 1 min. 18 4/5 sec.; at Saratoga...
Treatment at some of London's best hospitals did no good. A trial operation to graft normal skin from his chest to his horny palms proved worse than useless: the grafted skin blackened like the rest, then shrank and stiffened his fingers. The boy went to school, but his teachers and the other pupils objected to him. Though he was quick to respond to affection, he got so little that he became shy and lonely...
About five days later, the coarse outer layer on the boy's left arm became soft and crumbly, and fell off. The skin underneath was reddened, but soon became pink and soft. In ten days the arm was clear from shoulder to wrist...
...Skin specialists who read of the case last week in the staid British Medical Journal snorted, did not see how hypnosis could ease a condition which began in the womb. Neither could young (26) Dr. Mason, but he had witnesses to his treatment and the boy's improvement...