Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Roughneck Rocky Graziano is an accomplished shadow-boxer, who has hitherto been able to outpoint the shadows of his own past. This time he dropped his guard and caught one on the chin. Exiled from New York rings eight months ago for not reporting a $100,000 bribe offer, Rocky went off limits to Chicago and won the world's middleweight championship. In 58 fights, he had become the biggest drawing card in boxing, after Joe Louis. Last week, he faced exile from practically all U.S. boxing rings...
...other occupants of the wrecked vehicle, John Snow, of Westwood, and Robert Davidson, of 285 Warren Street, Brookline received minor injuries. Snow had a fractured chin, while Davidson suffered contusions and lacerations of the face...
...that point, with his 7,400 readers' tongues hanging out, Publisher Allen wiped the lotus off his chin, and confessed that there was another reason for putting an end to his 14-year-old newspaper. "To a large extent," he added bitterly, "we are quitting because we could no longer endure the conditions and demands imposed on us by the International Typographical Union. . . . They handed us an ultimatum which is no longer, by their express stipulation, to be known as a contract, but will henceforward be known as 'Conditions of Employment' (TIME, Sept...
Despite pain and danger he did not lose the coarse ferocity which had endeared him to voters in Mississippi's piney woods. He bragged that one operation had left him, with "no more chin than a jack-rabbit"; he said he had a pistol under his pillow for photographers. He talked nonchalantly of death, promised to "haunt the hell" out of the Republicans who had started the fight to bar him from the Senate. As summer wore on he seemed to be on the road to recovery. But a fortnight ago his wizened, 69-year-old body fell prey...
Said Groza: "We are moving forward to the elimination of the last traces of Fascism." He paused significantly. The implication became even clearer when Rumania's Communist Matriarch Ana Pauker swung her jutting chin around toward the royal box, and gave Michael a long, long stare...