Word: skinful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wastes too much time being angry. Life here is more natural, more leisurely. In discussions with French people, they never say, 'How do you, a Negro, see this?' They simply ask, 'How do you see it?' In Paris you forget the color of your skin...
...Cubana airlines, was flying from Havana to the Cuban city of Cienfuegos eight months ago when rebels fighting for Fidel Castro popped up among the passengers, commandeered the plane, forced Piedra to head for Mexico. A fortnight ago it fell to Piedra, who is also a good amateur skin-diver, to dive to the sunken hull of a Cubana airlines Viscount that crashed and killed 17 of 20 passengers when rebel hijackers tried to force it to land near Cuba's Nipe Bay (TIME, Nov. 10). By last week, when Piedra took a Cubana DC-3 up from...
...record his every word, suggests that his glibness is an inheritance from his father, a Texas revivalist preacher. From his mother, says the Bird, he got an appetite for cash. "She always insisted that we work and save. When I was small, I made money by trapping and skinning skunks.'' Young Birdwell soon learned that there are as many ways to make pocket money as there are to skin polecats. In high school and the University of Texas he kept himself in sharp clothes by working on local newspapers, later took "The All America Super Jazz Orchestra...
Professor Greg was very thin, and his white skull seemed to be almost visible through the thin layer of skin. In looking at him, one might entertain the fancy that he was a life-like statue. Once a student had said that during his visit with Professor Greg he had somehow felt like posterity itself being able to talk with the living past. He had also said that listening to Professor Greg was like being inland and lying in bed at night listening to the subdued roar of the ocean. This latter remark had reference to the reputation Professor Greg...
...middle generation is tousle-haired, big-beaked Kenneth Armitage, 42, already hailed by the New Statesman as "our most considerable sculptor since Moore." Armitage has long since left Yorkshire and set up his studio in London, but he admits that, once Yorkshire's industrial grimness gets under the skin, it cannot be washed off. Says he: "There's a hardness, a discreetness; everything is somehow bitten off and sharp, like Greece, but of course without the warmth of Greece...