Word: skinful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last November, two stern and intractable members of Franco's Guardia Civil, on routine patrol on the beach in search of smugglers, peered into the windows of an American's seaside cottage to see what was to them an appalling sight: ladies in fig leaves and leopard-skin bras dancing with gentlemen in fur loincloths. Wanamaker Heir Gurnee Munn Jr. had invited the American colony to a caveman party. Many of the 100-odd guests he had invited to come in fancy undress had decided to stay home because of the bad weather. Those that came, despite their...
Your article quoting Gov. Collins-"Florida stands on three sturdy legs. Tourism. Industry. Agriculture"-brings to mind a conversation with a Florida taxi driver. He said, "Florida has three assets. Oranges. Alligators. Tourists. And by gosh, we skin...
Sculling & Skin-Diving. "I told the Prince that royalty didn't mean a thing to us," Jack Kelly recalled. "I told him that I certainly hoped he wouldn't run around the way some princes do, and I told him that if he did, he'd lose a mighty fine girl." The Prince solemnly promised that he would be an exemplary husband. After the family learned the happy news, even brother Kell had to admit that his prospective brother-in-law was no oddball. "I don't think we can make a sculler...
...tucked into belted slacks, hurry through the streets of Tel Aviv and Haifa, bent on marketing by day, on moviegoing by night (Israel's per capita cinema attendance is the world's highest). Over their cheesecake and Nescafé, young apartment dwellers talk about new cars and skin-diving. Out in the older collective settlements, where palm-shaded bungalows hedged by bright bougainvillea and hibiscus have long since supplanted the rude huts, basketball courts and swimming pools indicate that the new generation of native-born Israelis prefer sports to politics...
...Reported cancer is substantially lower among nonwhite persons than among white (272, compared with 333 per 100,000 in 1947), but much of the difference is due to the rarity of skin cancer among nonwhites, which is thought to be caused by a "true racial difference in susceptibility...