Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...journey, at the Air Force Missile Test Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., behind high security fences, the ICBM was stripped of its shroud, its garish yellow, black and red skin exposed to the light of day. Soon more than 300 Air Force and Convair scientists, engineers and technicians were primping and pampering "the Bird," grooming its round and bulbous nose, its disproportionately thick waist, its flared skirt, its unbelievably complex and exotic mechanism. One day soon, perhaps late in April, perhaps early in May, the Bird will make its first flight. From a sickle-shaped launching pad near a sunny...
...pressure cuff on the left arm, and the usual tube down the wind pipe, hooked up to an oxygen cylinder. Surgeon Bailey-scrubbed and all but mummified in sterile gear-stepped up to the table. He drew a scalpel lightly across the patient's chest, barely breaking the skin in a thin red line, to show where he wanted the incision. Then he stood by, relaxed, while an assistant cut deeper. To the surgical nurse standing on a low stool at the foot of the operating table, surrounded by trays of sterile instruments, went a running fire of orders...
...entire operation from opening the chest to putting the last stitches in it-"skin to skin," as surgeons call it-had taken 3½ hours. After five weeks the patient went back to work. His heart no longer pounds unbearably; he can be as active as most...
...Sisters Under the Skin. Editors and writers share an evangelical faith that confession stories help their readers to solve their own problems. Gushes a top-selling Denver freelancer: "Lots of girls receive their first experience through these stories. I just know that many of them have learned how to react to love situations through what we write...
Reddish and only ¼in. long, the fire ant has a peculiar talent: it chews a slit in the skin of its victim, lifts the skin with its mandibles, curves its abdomen under its body and injects a dose of fluid which causes fiery pain, raises angry welts, and may form a pocket of pus. Victims highly sensitive to ant poison may be hospitalized for weeks; a baby in New Orleans was killed by the ants...