Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the Skin. Even as his temperature and his voice returned to normal without the prescribed rest, Nixon continued to show the weeks of hard work. At Springfield, Ill., he had to turn around to ask Pat what state they had left that morning. In Nashville at 10 a.m., he asked his audience to "consider with me tonight for just a few days" and said he would like to "talk just a bittle." Only once did he really get under the Democratic skin: in Wheeling, W. Va., remarking that Ike's health was no longer really an issue...
...Democratic partisans frequently refer to Jackie as "that woman"; Jackie's friends call Saund "that Hindu." Jackie's forces have not been above making an issue of Saund's race and religion, and Jackie publicly wonders if, in case Saund is elected, the color of his skin would inspire the powerful Southern Democratic congressional leaders to ignore him. Saund men see to it that the portions of Imperial Valley populated by Protestant Texans and Oklahomans know that Jackie is a Roman Catholic, and Saund asks how Jackie can oppose Government supports for farm prices and favor them...
...Sarah Roberts, a five-year-old Negro girl, knocked timidly at the door of a Boston public school and asked admission as a student. Her request was denied; the school was for whites, and her skin was black. This incident precipitated what was probably the first segregation case ever to reach a United States court...
...much radiation at one body site can cause skin conditions resembling severe burns or local cancers. Widely distributed over the body so that it penetrates much of the blood-forming marrow, excessive radiation can cause leukemia. If it strikes the gonads (ovaries or testicles), excessive radiation-i.e., by best estimate, beyond 10 roentgens*-can cause mutations in the genes, which, in turn, may mean deformities in the patient's descendants. Dangers, by sites...
...being the tricky business that it is, there are other defects for which no such excuse can be offered. The language is seldom precise and sometimes implausible. Chace writes, for example, "Justin returned to his shaving and tried to change his thoughts by applying alcohol and powder to his skin." Whether or not Justin is a solipsist, the relationship between his facial activity and his mental processes is extremely tenuous. The point is that the eye for detail is not the selective eye achieving an effect on the reader, but the indiscriminate camera throwing together instants unrelated both to each...