Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once again shaking hands proved to be a politician's biggest occupational hazard. In the reception line at the Democratic Party's new headquarters in Chicago's LaSalle Hotel, Mayor Richard J. Daley found himself touching skin with Joel Weisman, political reporter...
FitzGerald became dissatisfied with the role prescribed for her. She was like all of us in one way: confined by her white skin and "round eyes" to certain areas at certain times of day. All Americans found out quickly that going after the truth about Vietnam was the hardest thing...
...Gonna Take You Higher," Bette characteristically stripped the fushia, sequined mermain gown she had put on at intermission. She continued to perform--through her final rendition of "Friends," her incomparable "Chapel of Love" and a standing ovation--in her black lace strapless long-line bra and accompanying black satin skin-tight knee-length bloomers...
Feminist. The oldest generation is brassily represented by Wanda-44 when the narrative begins in 1950. She is "a large, heavy-boned, unpretty woman with a weathered skin, and eyes too deep and close together for their owner to be taken as anything other than troublesome." A 1930s-style feminist -and ex-Communist who left her artist-husband when he began to go commercial-Wanda virtuously teaches her daughter the credo of what used to be quaintly called "free love...
Many babies are "jaundiced" in the first few days of life, but usually the yellow discoloration of the skin and eyes disappears quickly as the liver adjusts to its new metabolic work load. William Lewis, born last Oct. 10 in New York City, was a rare example of a far more serious condition. His complexion remained abnormal. Even more frightening, his stools and urine indicated that he suffered from an inborn defect, biliary atresia-the absence or severe underdevelopment of tiny bile ducts emerging from the liver. William's case proved to be unusual in another respect...