Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...race. George Salih, the California engineer who designed the car, was a conformist only in his choice of engine. (He used the same four-cylinder Meyer-Drake Offenhauser that powered every car in the race except the two V-8 Novi Specials.) Under the Belond's yellow skin, the time-tested Offy engine was laid on its side. In its unusual mount, the Offy not only ran cooler, it gave the car a sleek, slanted profile that rose only 22 inches off the track at the snout. It looked strange, but it was sweet to handle; the off-center...
...ease in the accents of their betters. Enviously they yearn for the privileges of the aristocracy, without its responsibilities. They have a fierce as well as a flabby honesty. It can be said of each of them, as one critic said of Lucky Jim: "He has one skin too few. but his is not the sensitiveness of the young man in earlier twentieth century fiction: it is the phony to which his nerve ends are tremblingly exposed, and at the least suspicion of the phony he goes tough...
...hearings began, Dave himself sat down in the committee room, rolled out about 30 Fifth Amendment pleas in 32 minutes. But if Dave was not talking, his former business associates were -and what they had to say should have made Dave leap out of his expensive lizard-skin shoes. The talkers...
Said "torpedo" had emerged from a long black Cadillac whose lights were out. "Torpedo" watched Costello turn some fifteen feet in front of him, and then fired one shot from his .38 at Costello's head. The bullet entered Costello's head beneath his ear, wriggled through skin for a short distance, and emerged without having touched the bone. Then the real trouble began...
...made light-sensitive so that they form a photographic image. They can be magnetized and polarized. Unstable drugs and vitamins can be encapsulated to protect them from air and moisture. Tissue paper impregnated with perfume-filled capsules has no odor until it is rubbed gently on the skin...