Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orbits of the earth and the comets, and particularly try to detour around the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But a collision with a meteor won't necessarily be fatal. "Most penetration," said Dr. Whipple, "could be eliminated by a 'meteor bumper,' a second skin of small thickness a short distance outside the true skin of the ship. Meteorites would explode on that bumper and lose most of their power of penetration...
Hero of the hour was plump and platitudinous Mohammed Salah el Din, 49, Foreign Minister in Nahas Pasha's Wafd cabinet. Smiling Salah el Din is a dedicated nationalist with an extraordinarily sensitive skin (he breaks out in spots when exposed to Egypt's hot sunshine, never ventures outside without a protecting umbrella and gloves). His single-minded policy since his appointment last year: use every means-if necessary, threaten appeals to Russia-to get rid of those British and grab the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. To him, the Suez is dust in the enemy's eye; since...
...ship from being destroyed by meteors, Dr. Fred C. Whipple, Harvard astronomer, suggested last week. The aluminum cover, separated from the main wall of the ship by one quarter of an inch of space would explode the meteor before it had a chance to pierce the ship's main "skin...
This fall, an infant who had been slightly ill, suddenly died with ugly white blotches all over its skin. An examination proved her to be the victim of meningitis, a deadly, infrequent, and contagious disease. Another child in the family, also sick, was rushed to a hospital and treated for the disease immediately, thus preventing a similar tragedy...
...plant got his shin barked by a small hand truck. After the slight wound had healed, his leg became infected. A hospital gave him treatment, but after two weeks at home, he felt progressively worse. A few days later he died. An autopsy showed he had had a skin disease and was sensitive to any small wound. Thus his widow and children received lawful benefits from the company, which did not examine the man close enough to detect the disease when he began work there...