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Word: skins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Probably having your skin peeled off in little strips," Small said, smiling...

Author: By James K. Glassman, | Title: WGBH Tackles Death's Mystery | 4/18/1968 | See Source »

...state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today. And if America is to be a great nation, this must be come true...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: VISIONS OF THE PROMISED LAND | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

...attractive, wealthy intellectual and bon vivant who zips around in a Mercedes 300 SL sports car and goes in for strenuous sports (skin diving, skiing, brown belt in judo). He favors a far-out wardrobe that includes pastel shirts, trilby hats and green leather overcoats. He is a bachelor, and his fondness for pretty women is no secret. Considering these attributes, the last thing one would expect him to be is a politician, especially in Canada. Yet that is Pierre Elliott Trudeau's most recent profession. At 46, after only three years in Parliament and one year as Minister...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Swinging Prime Minister | 4/12/1968 | See Source »

Appealing to another set of readers is a comic-strip character named Phoebe Zeit-Geist, a curvaceous nude who is continually being assaulted by men, women, animals and monsters. From each scrape, she escapes with her smooth skin, at least, entirely intact. When one tormentor turned out to be a German army officer, the issue was banned in West Germany. Two issues later, Evergreen gave equal time, as it were, and made Phoebe's torturer a rabbi. Having mined that vein, Evergreen temporarily dropped Phoebe after one last mass orgy of sadism in which all her enemies ganged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Sex's Outer Limits | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

...hair net, she accuses it of assault. "A rampaging hanging plant chasing you around is no good," she says sternly, and starts clipping away with her shears. This leads into a lesson on containing aggressive philodendron: wrap the dangling stems around the base of the plant, puncture the skin and pin the stems down with hairpins so they will sprout anew. Her method for watering hanging plants without dribbling on the floor: drop a couple of ice cubes into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Programming: The Private Spring Of Thalassa Cruso | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

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