Word: skinful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some life to the limb. Before cleaning the leg fully, they stitched together the ends of the main artery, then the main vein. Quickly taking circulation from the trunk, the leg turned from a deathly grey to a normal pink. Then the surgeons cut away the crushed muscle and skin, shortened the bone by two inches (to make up for the lost tissue), sewed...
Billy Smith's leg, held by metal pins and skin grafts from his abdomen, has slowly knitted together during the past four months. He still has no feeling or movement in the limb. Not for another few months will the surgeons undertake thg. tricky task of reopening the leg to sew together the finger-thick sheath of the sciatic (spinal) nerve. They are going on surgeons' experience that nerves mend better when they are connected several months after an accident, figure that Smith will start walking again-although with a severe limp-within a year...
...with 313 days lost from work, v. the men's 37 illnesses and 124 days lost. Menstrual disturbances could not explain this huge difference; they accounted for less than one-fourteenth of female illness. In fact, the same types of illness-respiratory infections, stomach upsets, muscle pains and skin conditions -explained most of the absenteeism of both sexes. Surprisingly, sheltered operators went to the doctor more often for cuts and bruises than did linemen...
...Flesh. In London, the Anglican magazine Prism urged an investigation of British-made horror movies, but mildly suggested that nudist movies cannot long tempt the faithful, because sitting through bare-skin epics "produces a tedium so oppressive that it seems impossible that they can do harm: rather, they seem to give a hint of the timelessness of hell...
Hideaway. In Rio de Janeiro, Cameraman Jorge Alves de Lima told cops that someone had robbed him of a lion skin worth about $300, added that it had great sentimental value "because the lion, when alive and still in possession of its skin, ate a very good friend of mine on a hunting excursion...