Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Farano. The jet exploded, sending a geyser of water 200 feet into the air, followed by a plume of funereally black smoke. A minute after the crash, it lay like a giant, shattered fish just beneath the transparent waters of the bay, with scattered debris and flakes of aluminum skin glinting on the tufts of marshland. The only signs of life were clouds of wheeling sea gulls, roused from a nearby bird sanctuary, and a dozen helicopters that whirled to the scene like a swarm of dragonflies...
Condemned to the fire were all contraband cosmetics, ornaments. Hong Kong brocade, alligator-skin handbags, Swiss watches, radios, phonographs and records, foreign-made suitings. American shirts and neckties, Japanese toys, imported liquor, American cigarettes and tobacco, imported cooking oils and seasonings-more than 200 items in all. Television sets are about the only exception, because they are necessary for government propaganda and to provide badly needed entertainment amid all the austerity. In the campaign against smugglers, twelve so far have been sentenced to death. When told by harbor police that the smugglers' hot-rod launches can outrun government boats...
Roberto is close in spirit to Dmitri Karamazov. A mischievous youth, he is of darker skin than the others in his family, and he suffers for it. From the start he cannot resist thievery, cannot stay out of trouble. He deserts the army, and back in the city continues to brawl and rob. At the same time, he proves simpler, more genuine than any of his siblings, although he has difficulty in being able to love, especially as he must accept the taboo which prevents his declaring and consummating his passion for his half-sister Antonia. He harbors a just...
...wasn't exactly a holiday,' he replied in his rasping voice, 'but it got under your skin...
Proxy Immunity. To cross-check his findings, Dr. Miller took some newborn mice, removed their thymuses, and a week later grafted in new thymuses from mice of a different strain. These animals grew up to be healthy, but had a striking peculiarity. They accepted skin grafts from mice of the strain whose thymus glands they carried, while rejecting, in the normal way, other foreign tissues. Dr. Miller called it "immunological reactions by proxy." Despite the differences between man and mouse, the thymus gland probably plays much the same role in both species...