Word: skins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...palm-reading device checks finger length, finger type curvation and translucency of skin, and is considered a better form of identification than a picture...
...Alumni were thought of as racoon-skin-capped, musket-carrying people who only showed up for football games--and thank God the stadium's across the river," he says. But that attitude changed with a new batch of senior faculty. Shultz adds, and when Dartmouth and Cornell started alumni programs the Harvard alumni office begn to work on a comprehensive proposal...
...drifting up through the stratosphere. In their doomsday scenario, these fluorocarbons break down to form chlorine atoms that gradually destroy the ozone shield protecting the earth from an overdose of the sun's ultraviolet rays; this, in turn, increases the risk that humans down on earth will develop skin cancer...
...written of his growing conviction that "the theater is the greatest of the arts." Over the years he has turned put a sizeable number of plays, running from three minutes to three hours. His position as a dramatist, however, rests largely on three full-evening works: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth (a revival of which will open at the Colonial Theater in Boston on August 51, and The Matchmaker. A small number, to be sure: but Chekhov's rightly elevated rank as a dramatist tests on only four plays, while Webster, Wycherly, Sheridan, Beaumarchais, Biichner and Rostand enjoy...
...Marques, the Portuguese flag was lowered by an unsmiling Portuguese sailor, folded by a Portuguese airman and entrusted to a Portuguese soldier. Then three African soldiers in starched fatigues ran up the new flag of the People's Republic of Mozambique. As tribal dancers beat animal-skin drums and a 21-gun salute boomed outside Machava Stadium, the militantly Maoist President of the new state, Samora Moises Machel, 41, embraced Portuguese Prime Minister Vasco Gonçalves. Thus ended 477 years of Lisbon's colonial presence in an African territory that until 15 months ago the Portuguese...