Word: sunburning
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...Shepard's reactions to space flight. A group of physicians reported on the astronaut's physical condition before the flight and after: his temperature was slightly higher after landing, and his heart was beating a little faster than normal. A broken toenail and a small patch of sunburn were noted as preflight lesions...
Last week, abed in Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital, Rafael had little more than bad sunburn and dehydration to show for his ordeal. His nurse was earnestly trying to teach him English, but so far, his vocabulary was largely confined to one word, which for him clearly summed up his present condition and future prospects. "Okay," said Rafael Saavedra over and over again. "Okay...
...standstill. Near Dover, a chunk of the famed white cliffs fell onto the railway lines. Swans swam placidly in the streets of (of all places) Bath. Last week it was still raining. Noted London's Evening Standard sourly: "The tanned appearance of many Londoners is not sunburn-it is rust...
Confronted with a dilemma, Evangelist Billy Graham, vacationing at Jamaica's fashionable Round Hill resort, faced it squarely. Sizzling with a bad case of sunburn, he was advised that the best remedy is whisky. But Billy decided against a Scotch skin rub: "Can you imagine what the hotel servants would think if they came into my room and found me reeking of whisky? Why, it would be all over the hotel that Billy Graham was drunk...
Skin Screen. An individual's risk of harmful consequences, ranging from sunburn to cancer, is in inverse ratio to the density of the screen built into his own skin-the amount of pigment in the epidermis. This is most clearly shown, said Dr. Knox, in the contrast between the albino Negro, who has no tolerance whatever for the sun's tanning and burning rays, and the normal Negro, who has a high degree of tolerance, increasing with the darkness of his skin...