Word: chinned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will not be welcome here. We don't want Red murderers in this country!" But Georgy, if he could understand its message, paid it no mind. Still smiling broadly when he pulled up at the Russian embassy in London's "Millionaire's Row," he chucked the chin of one embassy tot who was waiting in the driveway to greet him, patted the head of another, aimed a last wave and grin at the cameras, and disappeared inside...
Last year they set up Malaya's first popularly elected government, prepared for a period of temporary confusion and uncertainty while Malayans found their political feet. Chief Minister Prince (the Tengku) Abdul Rahman moved immediately to make peace with the Communists, offered an amnesty to Chin Peng, who has been waging guerrilla war in the jungle for eight years (TIME, Jan. 9). Stung by Chin Peng's taunt that Malaya would not be truly independent until it had control of the country's defense and security forces, Prince Abdul Rahman asked the British for full independence...
...personae themselves, the laurels go to Michael MacLiammoir for his superb portrayal of the traitor Iago, whose evil is somehow intensified by two wisps of chin whiskers. Robert Coote is an unusually funny Roderigo. Welles, with his wide-range voice, is more than competent though not ideal in the title role. Suzanne Cloutier's Desdemona emerges rather colorless, mostly because her part has been so greatly cut, including the whole Willow Song scene. In places, the synchronization of the speech sound track is imprecise. Nevertheless, the film well deserved its Cannes Festival Grand Prize. It will outrage the Shaksperian pedant...
From Washington the television scene shifted to Chicago, where 10,000 candles, symbolic of friendship toward Ike, glowed in the darkness, and Fred Waring's choristers sang, "Thanks, Mr. President, we honor you tonight . . ." Ike, chin in hand, peered intently; Mamie hunched forward in her seat for a better look. A few feet away Television Adviser Robert Montgomery murmured to himself: "Great picture, great picture...
...best, it is a poor political pulpit. With a President whose health is a matter of public speculation, a Vice President who attempts to defend himself seems to be trying to supplant the President. Nixon, therefore, has had little choice but to stay quiet and take it on the chin. By now the chin is so thoroughly bruised by glancing blows that some Republican leaders are saying he would be a poor candidate because the opposition to him is so strong...