Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arrived in late afternoon, the time for the peasants' wives to be making supper-if they had any. We were met by three expressionless, grimy, starving boys. The abdomen of one was distended until he could not fasten his ragged garment over it; his translucent, putty-pale, bare skin showed a blue network of blood vessels...
Idler's policy of introducing new plays side-by-side with established classic has resulted in such past successor as the 1937 performance of Auden's "The Dog Beneath the Skin" and 1942's Mashenka...
...When you drag the children out of their hovels into the light of day, they all show the same familiar signs: narrow shoulders, protruding Adam's apple, spidery legs, earth-colored, leathery skin, huge eyes in huge heads. Worst of all, they have the dull, fixed stare of children who have never laughed...
Beginning where Atabrine and quinine leave off, SN 13,276 costs no more, stops chills & fever in jig time, will not discolor the skin or nauseate...
What had got into the New Republic? The change was more than skin deep. On a magazine which had gained little new blood in 15 years, a massive transfusion was under way. It had been okayed by amiable President Bruce Bliven, 56, longtime New Republic careerman, but the doctor administering it was a newcomer. Editor Michael Whitney Straight, 29-year-old son of the late NR Founder (and Morgan partner) Willard Straight, was sure that the liberal-weekly was going places. Just where it was headed, neither he nor his readers could say for sure...