Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soon everybody in the mountain miners' hamlet of Skin Fork, W.Va. - about 150 people - had heard the news that put their home town on the U.S. front pages: Private Kenneth Shadrick, 19, of Skin Fork, was the first U.S. foot soldier reported killed in the battle for Korea...
Half a World Away. Waiting for the telegram from the Government in Washington (which arrived two days later), the Shadricks assembled their recollections of Kenny. It was probably the football uniform, his father decided, that started Kenny on the way to his death, half a world from Skin Fork...
...film of towering significance, it attempts little more than a skin-deep approach to its grim subjects, holds itself well within the limits of melodramatic action. In a California fruit-growing town, a Mexican-American youth (Lalo Rios) innocently gets into trouble with the police. While he flees in fear, more serious charges pile up against him, inflaming the town's prejudice against its underprivileged Latin colony...
Before the war, when Ben Kuroki helped his father raise sugar beets and seed potatoes on a farm in Hershey, Neb. (pop. 487), nobody paid much attention to the color of Ben's skin. The day after Pearl Harbor, Kuroki enlisted. On the train to camp, he heard for the first time what became an agonizingly familiar question: "What's that Jap doing in the Army?" To answer it, Japanese-American Ben Kuroki volunteered as an Air Force gunner...
Trademark. In Plymouth, England, when Pianist Theodorus Peonides sued his hairdresser for ?200 damages, on the ground that he had contracted a hair-destroying skin disease, the judge awarded him only ?60, ruling that the loss of long hair does not detract from the earning power of a musician...