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Word: chins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sales tag was an estimated $3,500,000, a figure that would make it the biggest baseball deal ever swung. But Sam Breadon, baseball's supersalesman, didn't look happy. His chin trembled and he went on haltingly: "I feel very badly. ... It's such a big organization and so successful." Bob Hannegan, who quit as Postmaster General (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) to take Sam's place as boss of the Cardinals, stepped forward to put a reassuring hand on his shoulder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sam's Last Sale | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Plenty of other doors flew open. Rebecca, despite a somewhat unconstructed chin, had a beauty of face which was heightened by a beauty of the mind when her dark brown eyes grew intense with the animation of ideas. Talk poured from her in a brilliant jet, and had upon her listeners the effect of an electric impulse. She has been talking ever since, for her writing is, in fact, a burst of brilliant conversation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Circles of Perdition | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

Among the plain people, ripples of cold fear ran up & down Italy's long spine. TIME Correspondent Emmet Hughes cabled from Naples: "In a café on the Via Medina, I asked the sad, round-faced proprietor behind the marble counter how afraid he was. His stubbly chin trembled and the watery blue eyes seemed ready to gush tears as he said, 'Of course I'm afraid. How many Italians have to die? You Americans killed some. The Germans killed others. Now it seems we're going to kill each other. We've got poverty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Is God So Angry? | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

...dishpan. And I felt like a whipped dog." Once Bishop Helmuth tried to force him off the 50-acre farm in Paint Township that Andrew works with his father. Bespectacled, meek-mild-looking Andrew pulled the Bishop out of his house by the seven-inch hairs. of his chin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHIO: The Mited Man | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...quite get acclimated to. Rollywood's favorite ninepin, Marlene Dietrich. He's busy looking for Professor Grosig and the formula for a poison gas. In fact, all your old friends are here: the fat German with a sear, the brave little Oxonian who is tortured while keeping his chin up, the big sex-appeal Gypsy boy with a tern shirt and 33 children, the usual retinue of glum Nazi henchmen, and, last, but not least, the genial white horse that wiggles its ears. You can't forget those gypsy kisses that's what the ads say. O.A.F...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 11/13/1947 | See Source »

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