Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans have known for some time that this was Tito's headquarters. A few weeks ago 15 German Stukas dive-bombed the lofty crag in full daylight with no more effect than fleabites on a bull's skin...
...proud that, while they are fighting the Germans to free the people of Europe, and the Japs to free the peoples of China and the Pacific, the home folks are doing their bit to make the U.S. untenable for any but true "full-blooded Americans": tall men with white skin, blond hair and straight noses...
Said Keynoter Jones, a Quaker: "For effective living in a world community, the Negro has the dual advantage of being an American and a person who has pigment in his skin. . . . His identification with members of darker races should be advantageous. For the Negro, the slogan should be 'Go south, east and west...
...many modern techniques for unearthing clues. For example, laboratories can now determine (by the "dermal nitrate test") whether a suspect has recently fired a gun: if he has, a paraffin cast of the back of his hand, when peeled off, will pull out particles of gunpowder imbedded in the skin. A new X-ray test reveals tiny particles of lead in clothing, showing that a bullet has been fired through it. Dr. Snyder reports that detectives have found the lie detector extremely useful. Though it is exceedingly dubious in the case of pathological liars, drunks, dope addicts or morons...
...surest suicide method. Shooters often live for hours or days after hitting themselves. It is very difficult to shoot oneself in the heart (the bullet usually ricochets off the breastbone or a rib). Oddly, suicides never seem to shoot themselves through their clothes, seem always to bare the skin. Suicide by stabbing, Dr. Snyder has found, is rare...