Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concerned with your liking or disliking me," Robinson replied. "All I ask is that you respect me as a human being. I am not ashamed of my dark skin. You and every other white American should understand that we believe our color is an asset. Your dislike of my aggressiveness has no effect on me. I'm after something much more important than your favor or disfavor. You should at least admit that you respect me as a man who stands up for what he believes in. I am not an Uncle Tom. I am in this fight to stay...
...oldtime Arizonan, when asked by a visitor what the Arizonans did when the temperatures reach 115 , answered, "Hell, we just go out on the porch, take off our skin and sit around in our bones...
What was John Lennon doing in Brigifte Bardot's hotel room? According to a new skin-deep biography of B.B. by British Writer Peter Evans, the former Beatle once more or less invited himself there. Since Lennon was in an Oriental mood at the time, Brigitte was advised to provide some cushions and sitar music for a bit of transcendental meditation. When all was ready, Lennon appeared at London's May Fair Hotel, took up a yoga position on the floor, and said not a word for half an hour. Brigitte tried to make conversation, but Lennon sharply...
...question with a fatalism that was shared by many students and faculty last spring: how can the University presume to enter the corporate thicket and attempt to prune away Gulf in Angola from the rest, or at least pull the Gulf in Angola briars out of its own skin. Wouldn't that be just a "symbolic" action, concludes Farber; one having little effect in the real world? Even if Harvard were somehow to succeed in pressuring Gulf to withdraw from Angola, wouldn't another oil company from the real world come in and take its place...
...three-year survival rate for patients with bladder cancer increased from 48% to 62% during the period covered by the study; for breast cancer, from 63% to 72%; for cancer of the cervix, from 53% to 63%. Improvements were also shown for cancers of the thyroid, prostate, larynx, brain, skin and bone...