Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every sci-fi fan knows, one of the great hazards of space travel between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter is the asteroid belt: a doughnut-shaped stretch of floating debris that could fatally pierce the thin metallic skin of a speeding spacecraft. Now, for the first time, a real ship is beginning to run this rocky gauntlet. Success will increase the possibility of future missions to Jupiter and the other outer planets (Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto...
...Detective Division Chief Hugh McDonald of the Los Angeles' sheriff's department. It requires no special chemicals for the customer to touch. Instead, the check writer merely presses his thumb firmly on the check, which is then run through a tiny developing machine to produce, from natural skin oils, an indelible thumbprint. The device is now being test-marketed in major retail stores like J.C. Penney in California, and will go on sale nationally by year...
...McGovern himself favors a number of such programs. Dutton argues that just as this wave is developing, Nixon is adopting Democratic Party precepts of the past. "The young are not preordained Democrats," Dutton argues, "but the Republicans are not doing much to grab them. Nixon is saving his own skin at the expense of the future of the Republican Party...
...that counts is that of the fastest." The defense claimed that on one occasion, the local DAS, the police force modeled on the Texas Rangers, helped kill 17 Indians accused of rustling cattle. One witness, an elderly trader, recalled that trappers used to offer him cured Indian skin along with crocodile hides and deer pelts. The llaneros even have a verb for Indian-hunting-guahibiar (which is derived from the name of another local Indian tribe, the Guahibo...
...often to admire his hero and his school friends that at times the prose itself resembles a drowning pool. Some of this satiety may be chargeable to a wordy, flaccid translation. Occasionally, however, Mishima produces sensual writing of great delicacy. Looking at two Siamese princes, Kiyoaki reflects: "Such skin must surely seal within itself a cool darkness and constantly refreshes these young men, like a luxuriant shade tree...