Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conservative, bespectacled General Ho Ying-chin, 57, Army commander in chief and dean of the powerful Whampoa Group, as the faculty and graduates of China's military academy are known...
...views of the Argentine people the U.S. was really interested in. The angry document was shrewdly timed. In Argentina Juan Peron was up to his belligerent chin in a wild political campaign to get himself legitimized as an elected President. His triumph was by no means as certain as he had thought when his regime rashly promised the people they could go to the polls on Feb. 24. His democratic rival Dr. José P. Tamborini had become threateningly strong. There was even a chance that the election might be fair (see LATIN AMERICA...
...Vishinsky, speaking intensely of the dignity and honor of the Soviet State, enduring assaults which in another scene and time might be calls to war, and always sitting, fondling a pencil, his chin, the papers before him with incessantly moving hands...
...Emperor' Hiromichi (meaning Way of the Great Heart) is 56, unwrinkled, smooth-shaven from crown to chin except for a thin, reddish mustache. He lives incognito as a shopkeeper in the back room of a shabby general store on the outskirts of a bombed-out city. On his black kimono he wears the 16-petaled chrysanthemum forbidden to any but the Emperor of Japan. On his feet are a farmer's wooden geta. He is a devout Buddhist...
...elder Bingham had resorted to insurance offers and movie-star contests to double the C-J's circulation; it had become strictly a business-office paper. It needed a Mark Ethridge to lift its editorial chin. In 1936 it got him, for a reported $25,000 a year...