Word: chinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with which the disfigured dwarf made of himself a gay, broken blade in Paris. He never developed the cripple's defense mechanism of a sweet nature; instead he swaggered through the world on toddler's legs. He drank big men under tables as high as his proud chin. When he closed his eyes, he experienced the horrors of alcoholic hallucination, but with his eyes open, Count Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec saw with a savage clarity that has forced his special vision of his age on succeeding generations...
...shown an atomic reactor which Premier Bulganin said was "similar to the one we are making for you." At Leningrad his train was mobbed as crowds broke police lines. Tito put on his man-in-the-street act, tucked children under the chin, and listened to extravagant compliments paid to him by Premier Bulganin who, just as eloquently a few years earlier, had referred to him as a "jackal...
From Massachusetts: David Axelrod of Lowell and Great Barrington; Sheldon C. Binder of Eliot and Boston; Richard Braverman of Laverett and Brookline; Gerald Y. Chin of Adams and Boston; George B. Doyle of Winthrop and Worcester; Thomas Ehrlich of Lowell and Cambridge; Louis H. Fingerman of Winthrop and Dorchester; Robert M. Gargill of Adams and West Roxbury; Ruber F. Gittes of Adams and Melrose; Arthur C. Gossard of Kirkland and Quincy; William T. Green Jr. of Lowell and Belmont; William S. Kaden of Adams and Chestnut Hill; Robert D. Richardson 3rd of Eliot and Concord...
...black-and-white stock, tied on his red sash, buckled on his sword, and presented himself at Henry Raeburn's Edinburgh studio on York Place. As was his custom, Painter Raeburn squinted at his subject from under his heavy eyebrows, then boldly painted in Campbell's forehead, chin, nose and mouth directly on the canvas. Four or five visits later, the portrait (opposite) was done...
...well worth listening to. The army is quite like the houses, except they call their places barracks, and the food is a little better. Nobody gets away with wearing a turtleneck sweater instead of a necktie, and the only way you can sleep through breakfast is by resting your chin in your tray. But the living quarters are roomier than in the houses, and people all speak to one another. The disadvantage is that the army chooses your "house" for you, which really isn't much of a disadvantage...