Word: skins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...advantages: it is best in cancer of the larynx, least effective in lung cancer; it gives more relief in several other forms of cancer than ordinary X rays; though it "has not revolutionized the treatment of cancer," cobalt 60 is a boon because it does less damage to healthy skin and bone, is less likely to cause radiation sickness...
...external organs missing, but absence of internal female organs and presence of a piece of stubble-bearded skin on the neck clinched it as male...
...pits" in the sides of their heads. These are true senses, responding to infra-red (heat) radiation like soldiers' snooperscopes. In the darkest night or at the bottom of the darkest burrow, the snake can "see" a mouse or a squirrel by the warmth of its skin...
Unhappily, Vercors metaphysical skin-diving never gets much below the level of a mad-scientist movie in this odd tale of a man seeking "the refuge of non-being...
...daily so identified the missing baby. And most of the papers buried the kidnaper's race deep in their stories, while the New York Journal-American described the hunted woman closely from her missing upper teeth to her open-toed shoes, without anywhere mentioning the color of her skin...