Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Galantine. Mme. Miville-Dechêne saved her biggest job till last. That was her galantine, made from a generations-old recipe. Deftly she skinned a ten-pound turkey, carefully keeping the skin intact. Then she sewed up the openings, leaving a hole for the stuffing. In went the beef tongue, two pounds each of chopped veal and minced fresh pork, one pound each of salt pork and finely ground ham. Finally she added the turkey meat, cut from the bones, plus turnips, carrots and lots of onions. Tied in a cloth, the galantine was put in water...
Playwright Thornton Wilder learned that he was a banned author in Germany's Soviet zone. The Skin of Our Teeth had the wrong "theories about the inevitability of war," and Our Town had the wrong attitude toward family life...
...hair itself is hollow and stiffened with silica. At the tip is a tiny bulb like a cork stuck on the end of a hypodermic needle. When the hair touches a victim, the bulb breaks off, exposing a point so exquisitely sharp that it slips right through the skin. Pressure on the hair shaft squeezes the bladder and injects poison into the victim's tissues. The result: a hot, burning sensation followed by a longer-lasting itching...
...suggest. "For the great majority of our boys & girls," the commission said, "the kind and amount of education they can hope to attain depends not on their abilities, but on the family or community to which they happen to be born, or worse still, on the color of their skin or the religion of their parents." The U.S. must have an educational system "in which at no level. . . will a qualified individual in any part of the country encounter an insuperable economic barrier to the attainment of the education best suited to his aptitudes." The commission's recommendations...
...Hawley Harvey Crippen. In 1910, Dr. Crippen poisoned his wife, buried her in quicklime in the basement and ran off with his typist. Before Scotland Yard was sure that a murder had been committed, Spils and his microscope identified something found in the basement as a bit of human skin with an appendectomy scar. Ships at sea were alerted and Dr. Crippen, despite his disguise, was nabbed in the St. Lawrence before his ship landed...