Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SOFT SKIN. With elegant style and economy, French Director François Truffaut diagnoses the love game as played by an aging, suety intellectual (Jean Desailly) who shuttles between his wife and a shapely airline stewardess (Françoise Dorl...
...Slaves & Skin Lotion. The origin of U.S. marshals goes back to medieval England, where the Old French word mareschal (groom) came to mean a sort of royal sheriff in charge of collaring witnesses for the King. In the U.S., when the 1789 Judiciary Act created the 13 original federal district courts, it also provided for 13 marshals to carry out court orders. Appointed by the President, those marshals were at first responsible for everything from census taking to courts-martial and taking custody of prize vessels. In the 1850s they chased fugitive slaves all over the North, much as they...
...Wallace, for example, one deputy marshal stowed away in the men's room aboard the Governor's plane. Marshals have been called upon to seize entire businesses, not to mention stolen art works and such other oddments as a shipment of "Helene Curtis Magic Secret Wrinkle-Smoothing Skin Lotion...
Then one day, in the fall of 1937, he was riding with a couple of titled Europeans on the bridle paths of Long Island's Piping Rock Club. His horse reared, threw him, fell on him, and smashed his legs so badly that bone protruded through the skin. For the rest of his life he was in pain. He lived much of the time in a wheelchair and on crutches...
...cornea of the eye is one part of the body that can be transplanted from one human being to another without touching off the immune reaction or rejection mechanism which dooms most skin and organ grafts. Because of this cornea capability, "eye banks" have helped surgeons restore vision to tens of thousands. But at best the banks have difficulty matching supply with demand, and in many parts of the world, where religious scruples intervene, eye banks cannot even get started. Why not use animal corneas...