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Word: skin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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There was a distinct Porter style, of course, but Porter could never be counted on to stick to it. The same Cole Porter wrote "I've Got You Under My Skin" and "Don't Fence Me In", about as dissimilar as two songs can be. This was the same Cole Porter also, who wrote the eerie, macabre. yet somehow awfully touching "Miss Otis Regrets...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Cole Porter Redivivus | 5/11/1972 | See Source »

Shockley--who won a Nobel prize for inventing the transistor in 1956--has studied the hereditability of intelligence off and on since 1964. The most controversial of his many theories on the subject is a belief that nature has "color-coded" the human race: the darker someone's skin, says Shockley, the lower his intelligence is likely to be. "Every percentage point of black blood a person has in him lowers his I.Q. one point," he maintains...

Author: By Peter Shapiro, | Title: Intelligence Polemics | 5/5/1972 | See Source »

...with the late Martin Luther King Jr. in Chicago and his efforts to improve education and other conditions in the city's ghettos. The fact that O'Hare is white did not trouble the parish. Said Pastor George Clements: "Blackness is a way of life, not merely skin color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Black of the Month | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

...Poaching must be done at night-partly to avoid agents and partly to catch the slumbering alligators. The poacher blinds the animal with a spotlight, then approaches in his boat and fires a "brain shot" between the eyes with a .22-cal. rifle. A good poacher gets a rolled skin into his boat in 15 minutes. "They can get a 'gator out of his jacket real fast," says Federal Agent Andrew Pursley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Getting 'Gator Getters | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

Vixen. Russ Meyer's skin flick. Baker 100. 8, April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 4/27/1972 | See Source »

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