Word: skin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...less than a minute, one of the service module's two spherical oxygen tanks was completely empty; nearly 320 Ibs. of supercold ( -297° F.) oxygen, a highly pressured mix of gas and liquid, had gushed out of the spacecraft, apparently through a rupture in its thin alloy skin. Looking out of his window, Lovell could see vapor streaming by. "We are venting something into space," he reported. "It's a gas of some sort." At the same time, the spacecraft began to pitch and roll in reaction to the violent expulsion...
Upstaged by a nearby campus uprising and the Apollo 13 crisis, Jane Fonda got little local press coverage during her 36-hour "fast for peace" in Denver. But she was hardly ignored. Tourists and construction workers thronged around her and gaped at her skin-tight jeans and sweater as she camped out in a downtown square. Even Governor John Love dropped by for an amiable chat. Next day, her passive protest ended, Jane was back in action at Denver's Federal Tower Building, where she urged young antiwar demonstrators: "Be cool but don't give your bodies...
...meter, a crude form of lie detector with two tin cans, attached by wires to a meter. The pre-clear holds the cans in his hands and the meter measures electrical resistance, based supposedly upon the charge of certain memories, but in fact based simply on galvanic skin response (how tightly one squeezes, sweating, etc.) The auditor skillfully guides the pre-clear through various traumatic memories until their charge is blown off and all anxiety is removed. There are six grades of release before one reaches Clear. Becoming a Clear is quite an accomplishment; there are only some 2500 Clears...
...solution that would muffle the inter national protests. Henceforth, the Ministry of Fisheries ruled, seal hunters on the ice floes of the Gulf of St. Law rence would kill and skin only "beat ers" - month-old pups whose fur had turned a less-appealing brown and whose eyes no longer reflected the same degree of trust and innocence. And because the beaters could swim, went the reasoning, the St. Lawrence hunters would have to use guns, not clubs, to take their limit of 50,000 pups. "Those who protested the kill ings," said a bored Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau...
...breakfast with Singer, his wife, Rabbi Gold from Hillel House, and a friend who was cager to meet Singer, I realized why the author seemed so familiar. I.B. Singer looks like anybody's grandfather. His white, parchment-like skin stretched tightly over the bones of his skull contrasts sharply with his somber black suit. His head is smooth and round: only a few stray wisps of hair above the temples soften the sharp contours of his face. An clongated depression down the back of his skull reminds one of an infant's delicately shaped head. Singer radiates a childlike innocence...