Word: skins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mushroom soup is getting cold over there at the Budapest Restaurant where his bodyguard and manager are waiting for him. "It's probably got a crust of scum and dead baby skin on it"--an aside...
Indeed, Dole's greatest asset on the stump has turned out to be his humor. But Ford did not select Dole as his running mate just for the laughs he might bring. A former G.O.P. national chairman, Dole can peel skin as well as tickle ribs. Dole accuses Carter of vaulting ambition and questions his "weird performance, his judgment" in the wake of the Playboy interview...
...onetime lawyer and part-time farmer who raises cattle and sheep, Matanzima rules in a chiefly style. On state occasions he is preceded by a "praise singer," wrapped in a leopard's skin, who shouts of great deeds, real or imagined, by "Matanzima the Mighty." Among the new buildings being erected near Umtata is a $345,000 mansion for the chief...
...champion. The fifth time Bruno was not to be put off by such illegal shenanigans and leapt out of the ring after his staggering foe. Around and around the ring Bruno chased the terrified Hansen, until the craven defrauder had to crawl back into the ring to save his skin. Then, in what all true fans must agree to be one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in history, the referee, who had barely gotten to three in the twenty count out-of-the-ring-disqualification-call, declared the stunned and barely ambulatory Hansen the winner, before Bruno could spring...
...conduit made by snipping out a small piece of bowel. While preparing the conduit, Whitmore and his colleagues had to work with exceptional care, keeping intact the blood vessels feeding that excised section of small intestine. He then led the conduit to a small opening in Humphrey's skin that the surgical team had created just to the right of the navel. There, an external, flat plastic bag was attached (with glue), thus providing a urine reservoir that can be emptied at will...