Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yitzhak Rabin was chosen as Premier-designate to succeed Golda Meir, officials spoke apprehensively of what they referred to as Washington's "loving honeymoon with the Arabs." Said one: "What the Americans are doing is not cutting into our flesh; it's just scratching our skin a bit. It has not cost us anything so far. When it does, then we will start screaming." The screaming would presumably start if the U.S. began supplying Egypt with weapons now that Cairo has said it would no longer wholly depend on the Soviet Union for arms...
...continued fighting World War II. The findings: Onoda is healthier than most of his contemporaries who live off the fat of the land. His body is supple, his muscle tone is good and his animal instincts are honed: his eyes move constantly, he hears clothing brush against skin, and he wakes fully alert at the slightest noise...
Black on White. Summerlin made his discovery in 1969, while working at Stanford University and treating burn victims by grafting skin from other parts of their bodies onto the injured areas. He had learned from earlier experience that skin taken from a burn victim and kept in culture for up to three months could be successfully grafted back onto its donor-despite its decomposed appearance. But a chance experiment showed that it could also be grafted onto an unrelated recipient. While grafting skin back onto a black man, Summerlin noticed that he also had a piece of cultured white skin...
Reasoning that keeping the skin in culture had somehow washed off its antigens (surface proteins that enable the body to distinguish its own cells from foreign material), Summerlin moved to the University of Minnesota to continue his work under Immunologist Robert Good (TIME cover, March 19, 1973). In 1972 he reported that he had succeeded in grafting white skin onto black mice and black skin onto white animals. Last year he told the American Society for Clinical Investigation that he had crossed species barriers and grafted skin from humans, guinea pigs and pigs onto mice...
Wild Strawberries, Sunday, April 28, 2:30, 6:05, 9:40; The Soft Skin...