Word: tans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Envious of quick-tanning athletic types, milk-faced Cogg-Willoughby fought back at weekend parties by muttering about how easy it is for Mediterranean types to acquire a tan, managing to imply that the bronzed fellows probably had a touch of the tarbrush in their ancestry...
Along with Mirza, the army's commander in chief, General Mohammed Ayub Khan (another Sandhurst man), had long ago concluded that the army would have to step in. Dressed casually in white cotton slacks, brown loafers, green diamond-pattern socks, the tails of his tan-striped sports shirt hanging out, General Ayub Khan calmly explained: "We both came to the conclusion that the country was going to the dogs ... I said to the President: 'Are you going to act? If you do not, which Heaven forbid, we [the armed forces] shall force a change.' " Mirza waited...
...begin to see him without too much imagination; a dollar a day and you have bought your way into the conspiracy against him. But then, you wouldn't know about that. In your Bermuda shorts and crew-neck sweater, your sweat socks and white tennis shoes and Jones Beach tan...
Sunburn. Easily the most burning question concerns suntan pills derived from an ancient Egyptian herb remedy. A few years ago, U.S. researchers extracted the weed's potent chemical, 8-methoxy-psoralen, or 8-MOP for short, thought it might help thin-skinned sun seekers tan without burning (TIME, Oct. 17, 1955). Then the team split. One member, the University of Oregon's Dr. Thomas B. Fitzpatrick, concluded that 8-MOP actually makes burns more likely. A small drug firm, Paul B. Elder Co. of Bryan, Ohio, put up 8-MOP in capsules as Oxsor-alen, got it passed...
Though Upjohn claimed to have made it safer, the firm warned that 8-MOP is dangerous unless taken in strict accordance with doctors' orders: only two tablets a day, at least two hours before exposure to the sun, then tan very gradually-otherwise, a worse burn than without the drug. And it is emphatically not for children. So far, Upjohn has had no reports of severe mishaps, but nearly all dermatologists are still set against use of 8-MOP as a tanning aid, warn that it can cause stomach upsets and even liver damage...