Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wound up, hot & heavy, so did the interest of the electorate. At Clermont-Ferrand, M.R.P. War Minister Edouard Michelet was urging hard-headed Auvergnats to vote no when Communist Deputy Jean Curabet, who had been razzing him from the audience, leaped onto the platform and clipped him on the chin. Curabet then seized the speaker's carafe and emptied it on the head of stunned Minister Michelet-a teetotaler, but not that partial to water. At this point a young woman jumped onto the platform and went at Communist Curabet with her fists. Reported the semiofficial news agency...
...Huneik ("Father of the Jaw") because of the World War I scar on his chin...
Then, on a gloomy midnight last December, especially irreverent and irresponsible vandals went to work on the bust with a hammer. Result: no nose, a gouged-out chin, a scar on the left cheek, a chewed-off ear. This, the London constabulary decided, was too much of a good thing. The memorial was covered with a huge black tarpaulin and three bobbies detailed to perpetual guard duty...
Tall (6 ft.), skinny (152 Ibs.) and Cassius-cheeked, Danny is a handsome man-barring his Pinocchio nose. His face, rosy and puckish, is extraordinarily mobile. His mouth is big, his chin square, his eyes blue and easy-rolling. His hair has nervously changed from red to brown to blond at various stages of his life. Current color: carrot. His hands were once described by a critic as "the most expressive since Eleonora Duse...
Then Franklin Roosevelt, almost by himself, discovered the curative value of swimming. With all weight removed from his blighted limbs, he found that he could stand in fresh water to his chin. Half a year later he could stand erect with the water only at his shoulders; in another six months he could make it at armpit-level...