Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catholics and Southern Baptists are not always close friends. But in the Chinese city of Wuchow, Dr. William L. Wallace, Baptist medical missionary and superintendent of Wuchow's Stout Memorial Hospital, was for 15 years on the best of terms with the Maryknoll priests and sisters whose malaria, skin ulcers and other illnesses he treated. Even during the war years, Dr. Wallace stayed in China and kept on with his work, which Maryknoll's Father Thomas Brack last week called "a vocation of sacrifice and love...
...series of delicate grafting operations performed in London's Westminster Hospital, at the expense of Britain's national health plan, Cyril had a new tongue. It had been built by three surgeons out of muscle tissue from the floor of his mouth wrapped around with thinly sliced skin from...
...shipped off to the Holy Land, where the air is so thick with plots and subterfuge it can be cut with a Damascus blade. And there, jam-bang in the middle of it all, awaiting her true knight, sits the "only one who mattered ... to me ... with a clear skin she had no need to paint, blue eyes shining with mischief, and bright hair, in which gold strove with auburn, rippling out from, under her coif." The name's Yvette...
...addicts learn and change hophead jargon. They call a needle and a syringe a "spike & dripper." A sniff of heroin is a "snort of horse," and an injection under the skin a "joy pop." Many teen-agers quickly become "mainliners" -because it is cheaper and quicker if they inject the drug directly into a vein, most often with a safety pin and an eyedropper...
Agriculture said further that stilbestrol should be administered as a pellet thrust under the skin of the pullet's neck. If the head and neck were removed, according to instructions, before the broiler was marketed, no human chicken-eater would get the remains of the pellet. To avoid waste, the department suggested feeding the chicken head to ranch mink...