Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordinarily weighs 3,000 lbs.), and aimed it as casually as a shotgun. He fired a 2¼-lb. projectile (more than 2 in. in diameter) which demolished a cordwood target 800 yards away. The weight of this cannon: 45 Ibs. There was not enough recoil "to move the skin on my shoulder...
...emphasis was on speed and maneuver. But after his first hell-for-leather raids on the Jap islands - the Gilberts and Marshalls, Wake and Marcus - his force missed the Battle of the Coral Sea by hours. Halsey went back to Pearl Harbor on May 26, 1942, suffering from a skin disease which laid him up for weeks. He missed the Battle of Midway, decisive engagement of the war against Japan...
...last week as the result of a campaign of backstage intrigue and a storm of public criticism. Rivals within the Mexican foreign service, notably Francisco Castillo Najera, Ambassador to the U.S., had long been gunning for 6-ft., spruce Ezequiel, sometimes called "the black Narcissus" because of his darkish skin and elegant attire. Other political opponents may have undermined him with President Avila Camacho, hoping to head him off as a candidate in next year's presidential election...
Through experiments performed on animals D.D.T. is known to be a nerve poison easily absorbed through the skin. Used with discretion, it is not dangerous...
...year ago, experimenting to find out whether the potent insecticide would irritate human skin, the 30-year-old Briton painted his hands with D.D.T. dissolved in acetone. Then he kneaded some dough heavily impregnated with it. When his skin seemed none the worse, he considered the experiment complete, went on to other things. A few days later his arms and legs began to feel heavy. Soon they began to ache violently and "spasms of extreme nervous tension" racked his body. For ten weeks, doctors were baffled...