Word: skins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last fortnight an old crone of the village, picking herbs in the jungle, got the shock of her life. Out of a tree leaped a wild, apelike figure. Its skin looked like dark leather; its body was covered with hard corns from tree-climbing; ringlets of kinky hair hung from its chest; fierce white teeth gleamed in its bearded face. To the woman's horror, the creature, which was dressed only in a torn loincloth, approached her with unmistakable mating gestures...
Feeding them the hormone did not work (they eliminated it too fast). So Lorenz injected pellets of the substance under their skin, let them absorb it slowly. The results were startling. In two to six weeks the roosters' red combs paled and shrank; they grew female feathers and a layer of fat; their pubic bones spread; they lolled around like capons. After roasting, they tasted much better than ordinary cockerels. When Lorenz treated stringy, dark-fleshed old roosters, their meat also became light and tender. Lorenz has tried his discovery only on chickens and turkeys, but biochemists...
...from the fact that he is suspected by friend & foe alike, 4) completes his explosive assignment in the hotfooted course of one of those thrilling, dreamlike chases in which pursuers stick out their chins for the hero, great iron doors delay their closing just long enough for him to skin through, and a car and plane synchronize a getaway as happy, and unlikely, as a chain letter that really pays...
...condition could only be a figurehead. London's Daily Mail described him last week as "a spent force, prematurely aged, a pathetic, humbled, fearful figure." A report, allegedly from the Italian underground, said he was suffering from an intense nervous breakdown, apparently aggravated by old stomach ulcers. His skin had turned grey, his facial muscles sagged and sometimes his nervous fits were so violent that he had to be treated with morphine...
...Colonel General Ivan Konev, captor of Kharkov. A hard-faced man with a leathery skin and a head as bare as a billiard ball, he is one of the dwindling number of oldtimers who survived the test of this war. Like Popov, he headed an army in the Far East before the war. When Hitler struck, Konev was in the vital Gomel sector, fighting stubbornly for each foot of the muddy terrain. In the battle for Moscow, he held the southern anchor of the defense line, soundly drubbed the renowned Nazi tankman, Colonel General Heinz Guderian. Marshal Zhukov once said...