Word: chinned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since second grade. She was overweight, she had deep crows' feet around her eyes, and her throat rasped when she laughed. But her clothes were put on carefully and neatly, and she must have been a doll in the late '50s, before the wrinkles set in and the double chin appeared. When she looked me in the eye I saw why she was going to Memphis. Her eyes shone with a memory and a question. She needed proof. She wanted either to see Elvis and light up the old magic one more time, or see his grave and know finally...
...Niemans from abroad are: Graeme H. Beaton from Australia; Khen V. Chin from Malaysia; Tomas O. Dillen from Sweden; Dominique Ferry from France; Michael H.C. McDowell from Northern Ireland; Michael McIvor from Ontario; John S. Mojapelo from South Africa; Sabam P. Siagian of Indonesia; Donald J. Woods from South Africa; and Royston J.A. Wright from Sierra Leone...
...stomped, work-scarred, a ranch hand, a sheep tender, a survivor of scratch-hard mountain life who cherished the few years he and his bride had followed their flocks among the timeless hills. He faced life with a "dry half-grin" and wore for good a scar on his chin-"a single quick notch at the bottom of his face, as if it might be the first lightest scratch of calamity...
Boston's other teams haven't been burning up the turf either. The New England Tea Men took it on the chin (or is it shin?) twice this week: first striker Mike Flanagan lost the league scoring title to New Yorker Giorgio Chinaglia, and then the Fort Lauderdale Strikers struck the team from the playoffs. We're not sure which is sadder, but it still means an end to pro soccer around these parts for quite a few months...
...mourning for her brother, but she carries a black fan and even keeps her two sofas draped in black. In private she pops mints into her mouth from a pillbox. In her first meeting with Viola--Cesario she raises a smile by ticking off her virtues--lips, eyes, neck, chin--and then tucking her locket mirror into her bosom on the words "and so forth." She leaves no doubt that she is smitten by the young page since she whips the black drapes off her sofas when she exits. Later on, she goes much too far, when confessing her love...