Word: chino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prisons will be renamed, like the one at Chino, "Institutions for Men," and will permit weekend connubial visits for the married inmates. Universities will adopt cable-television systems that will permit students to "attend" their classes at home?and, incidentally, to keep their cars from jamming the highways. There will be no letup from nude-look fashion designers, who foresee the day when it will be commonplace for women to wear only body cosmetics from the waist up. The men will continue to wear clothes?but ever flashier ones. The antiestablishmentarians who created the underground press have already been trying...
...Chino Sta-Prest...
...human species, but it also allows us to graduate as men," he wrote on Aug. 8, still confident of victory. Two weeks later, his tone had changed: "The situation is becoming anguished. The rnacheteros [trailblazers] were suffering fainting spells. Miguel and Dario were drinking their own urine and Chino was doing likewise, with the ominous results of diarrhea and cramps...
...against the starting gate. That first mishap kept him out of action for only half a day; after the second, doctors insisted that he stay in bed for 17 hours. Neither was likely to shake the almond-eyed Panamanian who is known in the trade as "El Chino" and "Stoneface," and who last year won more stake races (24) and more money ($2,582,702) than any other jockey...
...papal audience takes place in the transept behind the high altar. Shortly before 10, about 8,000 people clutching audience tickets-pink or blue for most of them, the highly prized white for those with altar-side seats-had squeezed subway-tight around Bernini's ornate balda-chino, which covers the high altar underneath the basilica dome. "This is worse than the bargain basement at Klein's," complained a much-jostled librarian from Schenectady. "This will be the fourth Pope I've seen," boasted a man from Rochester, inching toward a favored spot in the front...