Word: skins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ysidro, Calif. Some U.S. taxpayers tried to smile through their tears. Along with their painfully signed checks, they sent the usual enclosures: old shirts ("Here's the shirt off my back; you have everything else"), locks of hair ("I've been clipped"), and pieces of human skin carefully taped to cards ("You got my hide...
...French asked Bao Dai to return to Indo-China as chief of state for Viet Nam. In March 1949, the French gave Bao Dai's state "independence within the framework of the French Union." In April, Bao Dai landed in Indo-China. "I risk my skin," said he, justifiably, for he got but little support. "COMMUNISM No-COLONIALISM NEVER" was the current slogan, and Bao Dai was widely held to be a French puppet. In time, some 200,000 Vietnamese came to join Bao Dai's army. But many more Vietnamese stayed away; they chose wait-and-seeism...
...COSMETICS. Inside, among glittering spangled signs and recessed exhibition niches, small jars of "orange cream for nourishing the skin" sold fast at 50? ; so did "Cream Metamorphic" for improving the complexion. There was "White Nights Face Cream" for 80?, "Festival Face Powder" for $1.95, perfumes called "Spirit of Red Moscow," "Fisherman's Fairy Tale" and "Fly Away." (One old favorite notably missing: "Svetlana's Breath," named in honor of Stalin's only daughter.) Some, like "Jubilee of the Red Army" ($12), came in delicate glass flacons. A children's set containing tooth paste and powder, soap...
What Author Gladwin does is to get small-town lives scraping against each other in a way that leaves skin burns. He does not keep his story moving, his chapters are episodic, and sometimes he forgets his important people while he enjoys an aside with a minor character. But when his characters talk, it is hard not to listen; all the more because their Australian vernacular is lively and unfamiliar. And the chief characters are something more than made-ups whom Author Gladwin pushes about at will. Gladwin is, in fact, that most hopeful and doubtful kind of writer...
Once the disease strikes, with headache, backache, fever and often hiccups, the doctors can do nothing by way of cure. But they can do much to make the victim more comfortable as the disease progresses, a process marked by hemorrhages in the eyes and under the skin of shoulders and belly, bleeding from kidneys and intestines. In the first place, because of the danger of bleeding from weakened blood vessels, the patient must not be jounced around in a jeep ambulance on his way to a rear area; the medics favor evacuation by helicopter. Because the disease affects the kidneys...