Word: skinful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...local probation officer: "Mavis may not be of pure European descent." The Bothas were told that Mavis might be placed in "an institution for colored girls." For under South Africa's race laws, people who cannot prove their "pure European descent" are judged "colored," however fair their skin, unless they can show they have "habitually associated" with white persons. And Mavis had spent all her short life with the Zulus...
...snake skin which you may believe The serpent cast that tempted Eve. A fig-leaf apron, 'tis the same ' Which Adam wore to hide his shame . . . It is my wish, it is my glory to furnish your knick knackatory...
...union organizer when, one night, true love knocks on his door in the form of Thea Fenchel, a rich girl with a predatory eye and a penchant for reptiles. Thea is the big thing in .Augie's life; he feels "threaded to her as if through the skin...
...also his character." The real battle, unseen from the outside, is internal, where "you labor, you wage and combat, settle scores, remember insults, fight, reply, deny, blab, denounce, triumph, outwit, overcome, vindicate, cry, persist, absolve, die and rise again. All by yourself! Where is everybody? Inside your breast and skin...
With few exceptions, Payne Whitney's patients are depressed, anxious and tense. Many have complaints such as peptic ulcers, migraine, asthma, colitis, or skin disorders of psychosomatic origin. Some are alcoholics, a few are narcotic addicts, many have precipitated their admission to the hospital by attempting or threatening suicide. Broadly, such cases are classed as neuroses and personality disorders; some are psychoses. However, less importance is attached to the label than to individualized treatment for the illness...