Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Invitation to a Haymaker. At 40, Leo Ernest Durocher is the most talked-about and most unloved man in baseball. From heavy-lidded eyes he stares a perpetual challenge to the world. He fears no man. His square chin juts an open invitation for somebody to hit it-and about half of baseball's players and umpires, at one time or another, have resolved to do just that thing some...
There was considerable doubt among Fred's superiors that he was worth the money. He spent most of his time with an inkwell on his chin, a pencil on his nose, and four or five books flying from hand to hand. When not so occupied, he would shatter the institution's leathern hush by bawling: "Say, did you hear about the man who dreamed he was eating Shredded Wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone...
Stolen: Marlene Dietrich's jeep; from outside a Paris hotel. Chin up, she told the press she would try to get another: "A jeep is . . . a sentimental thing...
...Legislative Yuan building. None of the waiting rank & file knew what was impending. T.V. took a seat facing them, in the center of a long curved table. He was hatless, but in the chilly hall he wore his overcoat and kept a blue-and-red muffler up to his chin. On the chairman's dais behind him sat rotund Sun Fo, Legislative Yuan president, and over Sun's head hung the inevitable portrait of the chairman's father, Sun Yatsen, with the words "Tien hsia wei kung" -Everything for the people...
...three days of confusion, the Chinese dollar rocketed from 10,000-to-1 U.S. dollar, to 14,000-to-1. One day this week a foreigner walked down a crowded Shanghai street carrying Chinese currency, bundied but unwrapped, up to his chin like kindling wood. He was unguarded-and safe...