Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon, as the first robin raises Santo Domingo on the gladsome return to northern climes, the lichened Gothic structures that line the still leafless boulevards shed their study oaken shutters, much as a yearling copperhead sheds its skin...
...thrifty townsfolk are quick to keep pace with the changing season. Even as the first buds peep from the ashen skin of the lofty Ginkgoes, so too do hints of color invade the once-barren display cases of the tiny shops and marts. Bright-hued apparel and shiny trinklets bedeck the shelves and counters. A holocaust impends, but all is yet serene waiting, waiting...
...have been unveiling their new models with all the calculated coyness of a middle-aged stripper. By last Friday when Nash 'came out,' the lineup was complete, if dull. There had been some artful padding and plastering of gaudy makeup, but for most manufacturers the changes weren't even skin deep...
...raid sends the Japs scurrying and allows Kent to save his skin. One man escapes with him, his young orderly, Anson. The two men make a long hike to safety, but one night, with shells and men screaming around him, Kent puts his arms around Anson. Before Captain Kent's war is over, he has sunk himself in a degrading attachment, killed a man who threatened to expose him, and made a fainthearted try at suicide...
Whipple suggests that almost all meteor damage could be eliminated if rockets and space stations were sheathed with a thin layer mounted slightly away from the projectile's skin. Such a layer, especially if filled with certain types of dense, plastic-like gases, would cut the velocity of the smaller particles and prevent them from damaging the rest of the ship...