Word: skins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...walked through the exhibits examining national products, eager representatives flooded him with gifts: a hippopotamus-skin shield decorated with gold and silver (Ethiopia), a coffee table (Liberia), embroidered linen (Yugoslavia), cloisonne vase (Japan), Bible (Israel), a boxed edition of Don Quixote printed on and bound in cork (Spain), 100 cigars (Cuba). From Eelco van Klef-fens, the European Coal and Steel Community's Ambassador to Great Britain, Ike got a boxed paperweight made up of metal flags of Common Market nations. Though the other gifts were to be sent down to Washington, he said, "My son can carry this...
...diving at the Olympic Games. The President himself sent him on a tour in the Far East. And why? So he would be an example of the absence of racial discrimination in America. And what happened to him when he came back? Because of the color of his skin they wouldn't permit him to buy a little house below Los Angeles. And he wasn't even a Negro...
...throb of skin drums mingled with" the high-pitched, cacophonous music of steel-stringed gourds. Fires flickered in every direction under great cauldrons simmering with a beef stew made from 14 cows and oxen. The village of Mahusekwa in Southern Rhodesia's Chiota reserve, only an hour's drive from bustling, modern Salisbury, made ready to crown a King...
...British wives-that Terry seems to have lost the loyalty of neither. One night last week, with five MPs guarding the doors and bobbies examining all fans for concealed tomatoes and eggs, Terry Dene appeared before a packed movie house in Derby. Dressed in a long, pale jacket and skin-tight pants, he began his hip-flinging comeback with Just One More Chance. There were hoots from angry men ("Get back in the army"), but the whoops from the ecstatic girls drowned them...
...with the Dance. Beset lately by riotous students and rebellious political opponents, President de la Guardia angrily scooped up Dame Margot and clapped her in jail. "I don't believe in sacred cows," he snapped. Dame Margot of the moon-white skin spent a night in what Panamanians call "the presidential suite" of the jail-and was then deported...