Word: skins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...undertake a vow to skin some people, make paper out of their skins, take their blood and use it as ink, use their bones as our pens and make their flesh our rations...
Passing Panic. The paradoxes abound. Sandy is part American Midwesterner, part American bohemian. She is soft, cuddly, feminine-yet a blue-streak cusser and a four-letter woman. She looks like the idealized schoolteacher that boys remember falling in love with. Her skin is transparent. Her features, with one exception, are almost perfect. Her windswept hair is a lovely honey color...
...know, I also left a skin there...
...hero is a pipe-smoking industrialist by day, the head of the Danish underground by night, and a skin-deep thinker on the side ("The whole world is a bloody sickness"). Bad Nazis perform the usual tortures, while protesting "We are a civilized people." Good Germans lament, "What a day we live in!" Arnold even has the chutzpah to have a Jewish housewife prescribe the hot-chicken-soup cure for an ailing dog. Worse, he blithely puts 1967 American words in 1943 Danish mouths: after deciding "that wasn't the name of the game," a member of the underground...
...doctors kept the woman patient on the balloon pump for seven hours, during which her color improved and her skin became warm and dry. Then they removed the balloon. Since then, her heart has performed adequately on its own. Further recovery has been as normal as that of other heart attack victims, and last week, six weeks after the operation, her doctors were considering a date to send her home...