Word: skins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Singing brown-skin girl, Stay home and mind baby. Singing brown-skin girl Stay home and mind baby I'm going away in a sailing boat And if I don't come back, Stay home and mind baby...
...Gospel before he was a year old, and at five, she said, Elias could read the Bible upside down in several African languages. With her husband out of the way, Mother Murambodoro (who had often listened to Protestant missionaries) loudly proclaimed that Elias was Jesus reborn with a black skin, and many an African believed...
...court in the dispassionate tones of bewigged British justice, "appears to be a human being who has been brought up to kill on the orders of those in charge of him, and to kill with bestial ferocity. While employed in its inhuman task, the creature disguises itself in the skin of a lion, or partly in lion skins and partly in baboon skins...
...hire a lionman from a.sorcerer in the next village. "It was a human being," the messenger told the court, "and it was a woman. It walked like a dog and it sat like a dog. Its head was like a human, but it was covered with a lion skin. I was not afraid of it because Muhandi, the sorcerer, told me that it was a soft lion and would not harm...
With a small hypodermic, the surgeon injected a second anesthetic, procaine, into the upper eyelid. A nurse peeled the lid back. The surgeon gripped the muscle on the inside of the eyelid with pincers, pulled it out slightly, and clamped it to the skin near the roots of the lashes at the edge of the lid. Then, with hair-thin nylon thread, he stitched the muscle down. The eyelid was rolled back, covered with a cold cloth as the surgeon went to work on the other eye. Total operating time: five minutes...