Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tropical skin disease to which white men are largely immune (there were only 25 cases among G.I.s during World War II), yaws is spread by contact. Though not venereal, it is caused by a spirochete that is indistinguishable from that of syphilis (like syphilis, it gives a positive Wasserman). Attacking through cuts or bruises, the spirochete first produces a raspberry-like running sore, usually on the legs. After a few months, sores erupt all over the body; in the third stage, the disease eats away the flesh...
...much sizzle and too little steak. . . . [They] blithely take over the field of morals, metaphysics, and theology. . . . [They] guarantee that [the reader] and everyone dear to her will live happily and untouched by tragedy for the rest of their natural days if she only has this jar of skin cleanser. . . . The unclogging of the pores north of her nostrils will shield her from toil, trouble, disease, disaster, and divorce...
...sagging body of Hermann Göring was carried into the gymnasium on a stretcher. His skin showed a poisoned, greenish tinge. His toes were curled. After the official witnesses had taken a good look, he was carried behind a black curtain where the other ten corpses were waiting. Photographers took pictures of the bodies both dressed and naked. The photographs, labeled top secret, were taken to the Allied Control Council in Berlin. A few hours later, the corpses were removed in two vans, cremated and the ashes "secretly dispersed" at an undisclosed place...
Dolls, the toy trade's staple, will have their biggest year yet, with estimated sales of $40,000,000. Items: a new version of the famed Kewpie doll, now making a successful comeback with close to a million orders so far; a doll with the prewar plastic skin; a freer flowing version of the rubber Dydee doll, a wartime casualty...
...chip or crack might endanger the plane by roughening the air flow. In a test flight, according to one group of experts, a gnat squashed against the leading edge of a P-80's wing. It stuck, and behind it a sound wave hammered perilous dimples in the skin...