Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nightgown, ready for bed. Then she decided to take a last look at her pet bird. She clambered to the top of the kitchen range for a closer view, nudged the gas burner and her nightgown all but exploded in flames. It took 97 days and eleven skin grafts before she could leave the hospital. Even so she was luckier than many others. The Government estimates that 3,000 to 5,000 Americans die each year from burns, many associated with flammable clothing and interior furnishings. Another 150,000 to 250,000 survive after painful injuries...
...think that kind of giving would calm me down. Peace is what I lack. I got into all this too fast, too young. If I could just be Ann-Margret Olsson again, maybe I'd get over this feeling that my nerves are on top of my skin...
...answer arrived last week in San Francisco: 11,350 pounds of tinned and packaged delicacies imported by Wo Kee & Co.-the first commercial shipment from the mainland allowed in the U.S. for 21 years. Sample goodies: fried longtailed anchovies, lotus paste, red date soup, bitter melon, spiced grapefruit skin, sauce of cuttlefish, dried dace (a fish), and a candy called white rabbit rolls...
...doctors realized that it was feasible to remove the extra pelvis and legs, they feared that the excision could imperil the child's urological functions or damage his circulation if major arteries were involved. They also worried that removal of so large a growth might leave insufficient skin flaps for suturing...
...removal would not impair the patient's circulation. They next separated and took out the duplicate bladder. Then, after marking the limits of Enrique's own pelvis with silver clips, they cut away the extra pelvis and hip joints and removed the growth. The procedure left ample skin flaps for suturing...