Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next morning Cooper was back in his Faith 7 capsule. As he lay on his back, the ten-story-high launch assembly swayed gently. The thin skin of the Atlas popped and clinked with expansion and contraction. Vapor whistled with pitch-pipe tones through the liquid oxygen release valve. Gyros purred-and, to the astonishment of control-center monitors, Cooper's respiration rate dropped to twelve per minute. Astronaut Cooper apparently was taking a catnap...
...granite" apartheid policy, faceless inquisitors have been methodically dividing the entire population into neatly labeled groups: black, white, Asian and Colored. Designed to prevent racial "contamination" of the nation's 3,000,000 whites, the law gave the government power to list names, ancestry and accepted skin color of South Africa's 16 million citizens. In the process of compiling these human pedigrees, pigmentation commissars have reclassified thousands of dark-skinned Coloreds as blacks, thus consigning them to the 11 million-strong majority of Unpersons who are denied even the tenuous rights and privileges accorded those of mixed...
...Those Pills." During World War II, "Atabrine discipline" was difficult to enforce because the antimalaria drug made many a serviceman's skin turn yellow. Today's malaria preventives have no such drawback. But medical officers in all the armed forces still have to fight against ignorance and superstition. It takes only one oddball muttering "Those pills will make you sterile, buddy," and rumor buzzes around the base. Great quantities of medicine get flushed down the toilets. Penicillin was whispered to impair potency. Recruits who were supposed to take it daily as a preventive against rheumatic fever often spat...
...Many pesticides come into contact with human skin where they are readily absorbed (e.g. naphtha used for mothballing). The government has no effective control over this danger...
...become a rather important international institution. I suppose TIME holds the record for having been banned from more countries than any other publication of general circulation. I would suppose that in these past 40 years, that is something of a medal of merit. Of course, the thin skin of the U.S. Government, toughened by the First Amendment, has never allowed that question to arise in this country. But on more than one occasion, we in the Department of State have been asked by diplomats from this or that country, was TIME speaking for the Government...