Word: skins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening night of the first-grade play. Up to the theater door came skipping the prettiest little girl in the world-her golden hair in loving braids, her skin like pinks in a bowl of milk, her chin arriving at a charming little point, her eyes as wide and innocent as a china doll's. But the lobby was packed tight with squealing children and shushing mothers. How to get through? The wide eyes narrowed, the pointed chin shot forward, and daddy's darling charged. "Hey!" a five-year-old hollered as he pulled her elbow...
...eternal feminine as can be seen in the mysteriously soulful face of Maria Schell. It is the face of a princess in a German fairy tale. Her hair is still the palest gold, and it tumbles over her shoulders, when she lets it down, in quietly melodious loops. Her skin is white and perfect. Her mouth is delicate, and her smile almost too exquisitely sweet. Her eyes change, as the light changes, from blue to grey to green, and are unusually large; when she smiles, they brim with tenderness and a kind of luminous spirituality that seems to tame...
...Leonard Lyons reported upon a merry encounter with old friends: "The Havana tourist season hasn't started yet. 'That's why this is a good time for working,' Ernest Hemingway had told us earlier, at lunch at his home. On the wall was the mounted skin of the lion Mary Hemingway had shot in Africa. No bullet hole was evident. 'I'm almost embarrassed,' she smiled. 'I shot him while he was running away...
...journeyed on his way, Dalip Singh Saund left behind murmurs of thoughtful approval strengthened because the reiterated message had come from a man whose qualifications were as apparent as the color of his skin and the skill of his tongue. After all, they had heard him say, "If Americans were prejudiced against Indians, how did I get elected by free vote of American people in most conservative California...
...western coast of the Spanish Sahara, even tougher tribesmen were reported taking up arms against Madrid's rule. They were the towering, long-haired R'Guibat tribesmen known as the "blue men" because their robes are colored with an indigo dye that rubs off onto their skin. Rich and, until recently, gunrunning, slave-trafficking nomads who hold a virtual monopoly on camel raising in the western Sahara, they hold colonial borders in warlike contempt...