Word: skinful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Skin eruptions on the hands are responsible for much misery, and for a big share of a dermatologist's practice nowadays. In the A.M.A.'s Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology, two doctors identify the typical patient: "A young matron, who must keep house, cook, wash dishes, do the laundry, raise her children, and hold her husband [and] whose occupation is inherently one of the most hazardous with which the dermatologist commonly has to deal...
...CASTLE OF MY SKIN (313 pp.)-George Lamming-McGraw-Hill...
...come a long way from his Barbados village. After teaching on the neighboring island of Trinidad for four years, he went to England, worked first in factories, wound up as a BBC reviewer of films and books. His own first book. In the Castle of My Skin, is a curious mixture of autobiography and a poetic evocation of a native life that has changed in the author's brief lifetime from careless, laughing simplicity to uneasy social awareness. In spite of patches of fuzzy overwriting, it is one of the few authentically rich and constantly readable books produced...
...hand, there is the polygamous group living under the Towers of Tumurru -on the other are those fading movie queens, practicing a sort of pseudo-polyandry, who shed a husband as easily as a snake does his skin and about as often...
Medal-of-Honor Major General William F. Dean, 54, brushing aside rumors that he might retire ("I'm not an old man yet"), flew from his California home to Washington for reassignment and a minor eye operation. Korean dirt, dust and wind had caused a skin growth on the cornea of his left eye. It began two months before the Communists captured him, he said. "You can't blame the Reds...