Word: chain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...themselves imitating their master's mannerisms. They scribbled furiously on the nearest blackboard, talked in soft, deep tones, combed agitated fingers through tousled hair, grunted an excited "Ja, Ja" or a nervous "Hunh, Hunh." They learned to careen along with a perpetual, preoccupied stoop; some even took up chain-smoking and blue shirts...
Every statesman, in his first go at negotiating with Russia, thinks that he will succeed where others have failed. Argentina's Juan Bramuglia was no exception. Nervously chain-smoking his black Argentine cigarettes, he spent two weeks shuttling back & forth between the Soviet Embassy and the headquarters of the Western delegations, trying to work out a compromise for the Berlin crisis...
...first season as bullfight impresario, Dr. Alfonso Gaona, flamboyant proprietor of a chain of optical shops, has provided Mexico City with some of its best corridas in years. Sunday after Sunday, five unknown 18-year-old novilleros have pulled crowds that filled the Plaza Mexico's 50,000 seats. Last week aficionados roared with delight, carpeted the sand of the bullring with flowers, when young Rafael Rodriguez-earned ears and tail for the sixth successive Sunday...
...University has made no move to ease the problem by allowing parking on its property--more specifically, in the Eliot-Winthrop-Kirkland triangle. But two steps can help a portion of the now harried driving population: removal of the chain across the entrance to the triangle and the opening of at least one side of the House driveway for all-night parking...
...first item--the chain which closes the street from 11 p.m. until early morning--is a hazard in itself; for fire engines and ambulances would have as much trouble bypassing it as private vehicles do. The other measure would not seriously hamper fire engines or snow clearance, for an average of 20 cars are in the area during the day when owners are certainly not within reach for hasty removal...