Word: skinful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stuffed treasury financed the political opposition to Nkrumah. But the Asantehene has lost the support of his young men, who prefer modern politicking to ancient tribal loyalties, and is increasingly worried by governmental investigations into the management of land and property under his control. Desperately seeking to save his skin and his stool, the Asantehene has been making overtures of friendship to Nkrumah. He issued a declaration transferring his allegiance from the political opposition to Nkrumah's CPP. Early this year, when Nkrumah made his first visit as Prime Minister of Ghana to Kumasi, the Ashanti capital, the Asantehene...
...professor demonstrated, in Southampton Water, his latest barge, which he calls a "Dracone," from a Greek word for serpent. It is 100 ft. long, 5 ft. in diameter, and made of 200 Ibs. of strong nylon fabric and about a ton of synthetic rubber. Partially filled to keep the skin relaxed, it carries 10,000 gallons of fluid and slips through the water like a boneless whale with a flattish top 18 in. above the surface...
...before he could take one step forward, but at least the movement was visible and real. This time, Adapter-Director Richard Brooks has been able to put very little motion in his motion picture. His Cat is a formaldehyded tabby that sits static while layer after layer of its skin is peeled off, life after life of its nine lives unsentimentally destroyed...
...possible dangers of the methox-salen suntan pills, Meloxine and Oxsoralen (TIME, Aug. 4), the A.M.A. declared: "No one knows what will happen to the skin when courses of methoxsalen and sun exposures are repeated once, twice, or oftener each year for many years. Nor is it yet certain what effects, good or bad, this drug will have on the development and course of skin malignancies or on the usual senile skin changes." Determined not to have its editorial head turned by the bronzed body beautiful, the A.M.A. concluded that "even the esthetic value of its effects is still dubious...
...depends on how the partnership fares in comparison with rival pairs playing identical hands at the other tables. On this particular deal, because Goren refrained from doubling, Goren-Sobel gained an extra eleven match points. Those eleven were decisive; Goren-Sobel took the gold cup by the final tooth-skin margin of six points. Said Goren, summing up the triumph: "We played precision bridge-being neither reckless nor timid...