Word: skins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Egan said, "I don't think that I need tell all comers about the nefarious plot of the Ivy Leaguers to short-change and skin them. They know." He said further that the League "will feel the sales resistance. It should. It is the leader in the plot to shenanigan the public out of its money...
...three foreign ministers talked in the skyscraper suite. The Westerners felt that they were getting Fawzi to concede little. "Words, just words," blurted discouraged Christian Pineau on leaving one session. Said another diplomat: "Fawzi is conducting a striptease, but so far he hasn't shown an inch of skin." At night Hammarskjold sat up late sifting comments of the bargainers and reducing them to essentials...
...When a burn victim has so little healthy skin left that it is difficult to find enough for grafting, it may be stretched by mincing it in a Waring Blendor and applying it with a spray, reported San Francisco's Drs. John S. Najarian and Horace J. McCorkle...
...came from West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who, out of a mixture of irritation and puzzlement at the so-called "Radford plan" for emphasizing nuclear strength over manpower, began to insist that Europe can no longer rely on the U.S. and must unite to save her own skin (TIME, Oct. 8). Last week, still beating the unity drum, Adenauer made a concrete proposal which he said had the concurrence of French Premier Guy Mollet. The proposal: a general scheme to convert the now-toothless Western European Union into an organization empowered to coordinate the foreign and military policies...
...mother insane. We had no way of living. My brother, who had also worked for the U.B. was discharged because of my father, so he committed suicide. Until my father was freed under the amnesty in 1954 we had no word from him. I was sick. I had chronic skin disease when my father was arrested. My mother could not do anything for herself, and I have two young sisters who could not work. So I had to look for a job. But I could not get work anywhere because I was ill. The Communist Party turned against...