Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some artificial geraniums on the mantelpiece; I swipe a petal every day to rouge my cheeks and mouth." She worked in a war factory oiling soldiers' boots, in a munitions plant, in a bakery. An old sculptor asked her to pose for him. "That was something new, to strip like that, but what else was there to do?" Her mother caught her stripped and disowned...
...abandoned laundry in Wilmette Ill., scientists working for the U.S. Army are patiently defrosting the arctic's icies secrets. While comic-strip artists fight th next war in outer space, the men in Wilmette are learning to defend a closer battle line: the frigid wasteland that arcs across the top of the world...
...outside city limits-Garden City just outside Boise; Jerome, outside Twin Falls; State Line Village just over the boundary from Spokane, Wash. They did a land-office business. Meanwhile, other slot-machine towns assumed new, weird shapes: the village of Crouch, for instance, pushed its limits out in a strip one foot wide and 10 miles long, to make slot machines legal in a distant roadhouse...
...Land. Twice as big as Louisiana, and watered by the crocodile-haunted Volta River, the Gold Coast includes: 1) the Crown Colony proper, a strip of steaming forest along the surf-beaten coast; 2) the Kingdom of Ashanti, astride the interior plateau; and 3) the Northern Territories. The North is a sun-baked wasteland, many of whose primitive people live in holes in the ground; their women go naked, with a tuft of leaves before and behind...
...always to be a little boy and to have fun":* Wendy and her younger brothers, John and Michael, who accompany Peter on his personally conducted flying tour of Never Land; that dark and dreadful man, Captain Jas Hook with his syrupy voice and steel-hook hand, and his comic-strip crew of pirates; the Lost Boys, a tatterdemalion band of motherless waifs; Tiger Lily, demure princess of the Piccaninny Tribe of Indians; a popeyed, ticktocking crocodile who continually stalks the hysterically frightened Hook...