Word: skins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fact determined to get out of Egypt as soon as possible and that continuing U.N. pressure for "immediate" withdrawal would only serve to stir up British national pride to such an extent that the Eden government might be forced to delay matters in order to save its skin. And in a final conciliatory burst, Britain sought to placate the Assembly by announcing that withdrawal of one battalion from Port Said would begin before the week was out. The Israelis, in an equally sudden access of amenability, announced that they had withdrawn two brigades-about 6,000 men-from the Sinai...
...burly Soviet Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Jacob Malik, popped up at a London reception with his right hand in a bandage, accepted scattered condolences but offered no explanations. The Soviet Embassy later unhelpfully allowed: "Maybe it was a skin irritation...
...Selye. He sees it in "the soldier who sustains wounds in battle, the mother who worries about her soldier son, the gambler who watches the races . . . the beggar who suffers from hunger and the glutton who overeats . . . the child who scalds himself-and especially the particular cells of the skin over which he spilled the boiling coffee." So far it would seem that Dr. Selye has discovered only the obvious. But then he takes a bold, imaginative leap: "To understand the mechanism of stress gives physicians a new approach to the treatment of illness ... it can also give...
...heaven. Yellow Xolos were best for this job, but those of other colors could roll in yellow mud and do almost as well. They were also useful as sacrifices, and were believed to have important medicinal powers. A Xolo's temperature is 104° F., and his skin, bare of insulation, feels hot to the touch. These properties made him useful as a living hot-water bottle, and he harbored no more fleas than if he were made of rubber. When Dog-Fancier Wright began to study the hairless-dog situation, he found Mexico full of peculiar dogs, more...
...eight Xolos throve and multiplied. In cooperation with the Asociación Canofila Mexicana (Mexican Kennel Club), he set up standards for the breed. A genuine Xolo should have no hair except a slight fuzz on the top of the head and the tip of the tail. The naked skin can be any color (dark brown or grey is commonest), but large blotches of pink are undesirable. The ears should stand up straight...