Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many consequences of this inane war of yours is the thwarting of humanitarian goals pursued by American Peace Corps Volunteers by your equally inane Selective Service quota system. Of course this is not to imply that those Volunteers interested primarily in saving their skin have remained secure from the draft either. The distinction between motives is irrelevant: the local boards search and destroy indiscriminately, operating in the best of democratic traditions...
Students--Negro and white--realized that everyone is black in the dark. This girl, in a few seconds, forcibly conveyed the superficiality of skin color much more effectively than most teachers could in a year...
...addition, whites learned that there is nothing intrinsically superior about having any particular skin color. And Negroes expressed the opinion that, somewhere else in the Universe, black skins might be more desirable than white ones...
...hump" with such exercises as Double Hip Spanks, Thigh Thumps, Chin-to-Knee Bounces and the Pectoral Fling. For "viewer identification," she often has her six daughters, ages ten to 20, exercise along with her. Allen, 39, perhaps to compensate for a double chin, swathes his 197 Ibs. in skin-tight polo shirts and stretch pants, and dresses down his wavy locks with hair spray. He gets 3,000 fan letters a week, travels 60,000 miles a year promoting barbells and beauty creams. While on the road, he keeps in shape by chugging up and down hotel fire escapes...
Lower-altitude explosions in the atmosphere would be even more disastrous, Lapp calculates. The detonation of a ten-megaton ICBM by an intercepting Sprint at an altitude of 50,000 feet would produce second-degree skin burns in people over an area as large as 2,000 sq. mi. and cause dry paper to ignite over an area...