Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...colleges tend toward an undergraduate uniform, but nowhere is it more widely and carefully adopted than Smith. The well-groomed Smithie is moderate in dress, neither ostentatious nor sloppy; she looks classically well-scrubbed and cheerful in her Pepsodent smile, Pringle sweater, Ship-n'. Shore blouse, and pleated plaid skin. Wool knee socks and brown Bass Weejuns complete the basic picture...
Odessa Grady Clay is a short, pillowy woman with freckled fawn skin and an expensive orthodontist. Cash never gave her a bit of trouble. She likes to talk about him as a baby. "The first thing he said was 'Gee-gee,' and that's what people in the family still call him: Gee. Later he said that Gee-gee stood for Golden Gloves, which he was going to win." Around Grand Avenue, Cassius was known as a prodigious eater, a pretty good rock fighter, and a deadeye marble shooter-when his parents...
...textile industry has long depended on large machines for knitting such small items as stockings and sweaters, but the current boom in skin-tight stretch clothes has hatched far more ambitious devices...
...short of meeting the need for housing, schools, land reclamation, establishing new industry. In addition, Matanzima faces powerful political opposition from another Tembu chief, Sabata Dalindyebo, who does not like the Bantustan idea at all. Dalindyebo demands multiracial political rule "in which the color of a man's skin plays no part in his civil rights. By accepting self-government," he warns, "we fear we will be enclosing ourselves in a pigsty...
...kidding, it really is an accident, and the same can be said of what happens to Nuyen. She is the King's concubine, and he loves her soft yellow skin. He just doesn't want it on any child of his. When she gets pregnant, he orders her to abort. When she refuses, he moves out. When she gives birth to the baby, she dies. It's as simple as that, and no court costs...