Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year for the mineral rights to their sacred Black Hills: one mine alone yielded more than $500 million in gold. Of the estimated 3,700,000 buffalo killed from 1872 through 1874, only 150,000 were killed by Indians. The rest were slaughtered by white hunters for skins and for meat to feed rail workers, or by "sportsmen" who left the carcasses to rot. The destruction of the buffalo broke the cultural, ecological and spiritual links in the chain of Indian existence. This was not without its uses. "Let them kill, skin and se'l until the buffalo...
GEORGE JACKSON. As a small boy growing up in one of Chicago's black ghettos, Jackson was so intrigued by his first sight of a white skin that he walked up and touched it. His curiosity earned him a swift blow on the head with a baseball bat. Since that time, Jackson, whose brother Jonathan was cut down while leading a raid on the Marin County courthouse last August, has battled white society. For eleven years, Jackson, 29, has served time in California prisons for the $70 robbery of a gas station - 7½ years of that time...
Boss player. An upwardly mobile hustler who never uses his black skin as an excuse for failure...
...high elastic curves, each man playing his motions off the motions of the other a tiny part of a second before the sound plays off the sound; the drum duet passes from a fast, steady rhythm to a less pronounced beat, made with fewer strikes of wood on skin, but steady by implied rhythm, open to complex variations within itself...
Warts, those horny, homely growths on the surface of the skin, are often harmless annoyances that tend to disappear if ignored. Occasionally they can grow large or deep enough to cripple hands and feet or, if on the face, to cause psychological problems. But while warts have bedeviled man for thousands of years, physicians have yet to discover either the reason or the remedy for them...