Word: skins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remembered her mammy's proud boast, "Ain't nothin' but black niggers here on massa's place." And she tried not to think about "sassoborro," the name her ebony-black father--his mouth curled in scorn used to call those with mulatto skin. She was grateful that they weren't there to see--and share--her shame. But she knew that...all anyone had to do was compare her color and the baby's to know what had happened--and with whom.... But before she fell asleep, Kizzy decided...she would never regard him as other than the grandson...
...more careful than most people," she says. As a result of her studies in radiology, Kennedy has given up her college pastime of sunbathing for fear of skin cancer. Now, she even wears a hat while playing tennis...
...could ultimately deplete the three-mile-thick ozone layer by as much as 7%. Public health authorities predict that the subsequent increase in the amount of ultraviolet light reaching the earth would raise by about 200 the number of Americans afflicted annually by malignant melanoma, a form of skin cancer that now strikes an estimated 8,400 and kills some 2,700 each year. The ozone loss would bring an increase in other forms of skin cancer as well...
...South; it "comes up a cloud." For young children, the mystery of the belly button is easy to explain: it is "where the Yankee shot you." Acquaintanceship? "We've howdied but we haven't shook." Crowding? "There's not room enough in here to skin a cat without getting hair in your mouth." If things are going well, "life's just a slide on a doughnut." There is also the Southern man who lies so much that he needs someone else to call his dog. Similes fall like raindrops: slow as a pond, high...
...large, (buttressed by his visibility in and around City Hall and at every civic function where people watch to see who's there) Al has emerged as the friendly politician, the sort of guy you'd like to have dinner with at home, someone under whose thick political skin beats a warm human heart. Someone who's real...