Word: chinned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There, on Dec. 20, 1973, two men wearing ski masks and carrying walkie-talkies surprised him in Rose's Sandwich Shop, a sleazy restaurant that had color stills from The Godfather on one wall. One man held a 12-gauge shotgun under Cain's chin and blew the head off the man whose quarry had once been Fidel Castro...
...Chevy pick up, that ran like it had tin cans for pistons but it was driven by a guy who knew just how to ease those fragile parts just one more time around. He was a friendly guy with a beard that ran off of his chin the same way the wires must have run off his distributor cap loose and tangled. He took me all the way to Berkeley, across the Bay Bridge, across Treasure Island and he dropped me on Berkeley's main drag by the side of Interstate...
...Chin also does more with her students than teach them English. "I don't serve just as an English teacher, but as a social worker and interpreter as well," she says. "They bring mail for me to translate. Even if they just go to a doctor, for example, they need an interpreter...
This year Chen coordinated China Night, an event that Big-qu Chin initiated three years ago. Students from colleges all over the Boston area, along with one or two big-name stars from Hong Kong, present an evening of Chinese culture and entertainment. The money from the ticket sales goes to 11 different volunteer organizations in Chinatown that perform social services for the community...
During the last year Lee spends about 12 hours a week in Chinatown working at an after-school day care program with 15 to 20 children, referred there because of emotional problems similar to those described by Chin. "The kids that grow up in that environment get either really tough, or beat down," Lee says. "Some were really active and loud; others didn't talk at all. There were two kids there that didn't say anything since I had been there, which was a year. There was a third guy like that, but we got him to say something...