Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when their Volkswagen was surrounded by some 50 highly nervous rebel troops carrying pangas, clubs and spears, their uniforms ranging from European suit coats to shorts and grass skirts. From their midst emerged a goateed man known only as "Major," clad in green fatigue pants and a splendid monkey-skin bush hat. Commissars or no commissars, the major was not going to let the newsmen continue into the rebel area, angrily denounced Americans because the T-28 planes had attacked only that morning. Offered a pacifying cigarette, the major drew himself up with great dignity and replied, "No, thank...
...Australia's Roy Emerson, 27: the London Grass Court tennis tournament, last big tune-up for Wimbledon, with a skin-of-the-teeth victory over Tomas Lejus, 22, first Russian ever to reach the finals of a major tennis tournament. Unseeded and unheralded, Lejus beat Mexico's Rafael Osuna in the semifinals, played Emerson almost even for 90 min. before losing...
...blocks out most outside electrical disturbances. As the subject chews and drinks in his static-free environment, his tooth transmitter gives out a signal every time two spots of gold on the chewing surfaces of two opposing teeth come together. In addition, a muscle-tension detector attached to the skin of his jaw is connected to an electromyograph. The signals from the chewing teeth and the muscle-tension record of the electromyograph are picked up by a receiver and recorded on tape before being translated into graphs. Some subjects have been wired for sound in their sleep, in hope that...
...things did not quite turn out like that. Goldwater of course beat Rocky in California, if only by a skin-of-the-tooth margin of 59,000 votes out of more than 2,000,000 cast. To Scranton, that made it seem even more urgent for the Republicans in Cleveland to rally behind a moderate who might beat Goldwater...
...white and a Negro graduate were competing for the same job and were equal in every respect save skin color, the job would go to the Negro." Some defense contractors feel it is good business to display Negroes conspicuously at drafting tables and in labs. Consumer-oriented companies are inclined to woo Negro trainees to avoid the unpleasantness of picket lines and sit-ins. By and large, however, U.S. companies are seeking Negroes for promising jobs because they feel it is the right thing to do and the right time to do it. "We are looking for brains," says Swift...