Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With that he scurried up to the speaker's platform. His boys broke into cheers, kept right on roaring. The boss's chin quivered. Finally, Petrillo burst into tears. "I'm a soft touch," he sobbed, reaching for a beer. "Either fight or cry." Later he added an aside: "But we don't want any victories, or any fights. We want to love...
...ring. "Stands out by a mile as the boss in this company. He is a restless prisoner, leaning this way and that, flapping his pudgy little hands about, patting his hair, stroking his mouth, massaging his cheeks, resting his chin sideways on the ledge of the dock...
Last week, from U.S.-occupied Chin-wangtao, Central Government troops broke through Communist lines at Shanhaikwan, coastal anchor of the Great Wall. For the first time since 1931, Central Government forces were on Manchurian soil...
Along the railways leading south from these key Hopeh cities fighting had been going on for weeks. Last week the news burst into the open, and General Ho Ying-chin, Chungking's chief of staff and commander in chief of all field forces, went to the north. He flatly declared that the Government would reopen communications "as soon as possible." So far it was primarily a political and economic war; the military phase was incidental...
Eight Bells & Books. Junior's plebe year ("suck up your gut and pull in your chin") was hard going. Low marks made him double up on some courses, and all but forget football. Sometimes too weary to open a book at night, he would hit the hay at 8, set his alarm for a chilly...