Word: skin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will be onstage-against a bare backdrop. ¶ Republican Bertha Adkins, assistant to Chairman Leonard Hall, is handing out TV-inspired advice to the ladies: no large-brim hats or veils ("they might keep the televiewers from recognizing their delegates"), nothing white next to the face ("detracts from the skin tone of TV images"), no big-striped dresses or shiny jewelry. ¶ TV's key men will scarcely be seen at all. TV Pool Director Bob Doyle (NBC) will call the shots, decide which of the images from scores of cameras will go inside the nation's homes...
More remarkable were 21 patients with radiation damage to the skin and breakdown of surrounding tissues which had been going on for three months to 30 years. Fifteen of these showed "good or excellent healing of previously unhealed areas...
Macken has told 21 stories, mostly in a brogue as thick as barley soup. A typical one is "The Currach Race"-a currach being the paper-thin, skin and withy rowboat in which Galway fishermen put out into the Atlantic. Colm wants to marry Sorcha, a fisherman's daughter. But the fishermen despise Colm because he is a farmer. Their taunts goad him into taking an oar in a currach race on St. Patrick's Day. He nearly kills himself, but in the end, bless him, they agree he's a great man, and there...
...much pain can a man bear? Nature, says Dr. Hardy, has provided him with a built-in ceiling. On the Hardy-Wolff-Goodell scale, pain is measured in ten degrees of one "dol" each. With their lamp heat, the researchers found that when the skin temperature got to 152° the pain reached its excruciating maximum. After that the pain stayed constant no matter how much heat was turned...
...Arthur S. Keats. But this pain is by no means universal. He and many other researchers have found that few patients complain of pain after a surprisingly long list of major operations-surgery on the head and neck (including thyroid), hand and wrist, genital organs, or after amputation, skin graft, removal of a breast, stripping of a vein, fracture reduction, nailing of a hip or dressing of a burn. The operations most consistently followed by pain are those in the chest and abdominal cavities...