Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrested him on the way to her funeral, but for a clear cut case, they needed to know exactly when the poison was given-the one thing their toxicologists couldn't tell them. The body, which tries hard to protect itself from arsenic, stores it away in the skin, fingernails and hair. But even after examining hundreds of samples of such clues, toxicologists can seldom do more than report approximately when the poison dose was given...
...made the most desirable spots those on a chairless balcony above the platform. Astute music lovers sacrificed comfort, sat on the balcony floor, their feet dangling over the edge. At the second night's concert, the tramontane brought an unseasonable downpour that soaked the motionless audience to the skin before the concert was called...
William Foyle still takes personal charge when one of his customers writes in for an especially exotic book. An elderly spinster recently asked for a book bound in human skin. Foyle sent out his scouts, within a week shipped her a copy of French Novelist Eugène Sue's Vignettes les Mystères de Paris, printed in 1843 and bound in skin from the shoulders of his Parisian mistress, as she had directed in her will. Price: $28. Says William Foyle: "It's an interesting business, bookselling...
...Have your griddle greased with a slab of bacon rind or some salt pork skin. Heat to the proper temperature to produce the deep orange glow so essential to the seductive pancake...
...Clever Guests. When the first birds appeared some 130 million years ago, say the colonel and Zoologist Clay, they offered an "unoccupied ecological niche": i.e., a place where some organism might manage to scratch out a living. Almost at once an ancient louse moved in, finding the feathers and skin debris a convenient source of food. As the early birds evolved into separate species, their lice evolved too, adapting themselves cleverly to each change in their hosts. Penguins have their lice; so do skylarks and ostriches. The extinct dodo and giant moa were undoubtedly lousy...