Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other Central Government troops, preceded in the North China port of Chin-wangtao by U.S. marines, met strong Communist resistance when they tried to march beyond the Great Wall into Manchuria. The Government troops skirmished fell back and waited for reinforcements...
October. With Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek remaining in Chungking, the principal actor in the field is General Ho Ying-chin, commander of all Chinese field forces. U.S. Major General Robert B. McClure, who is in charge of the training program of the Chinese divisions, gave Ho full marks for cooperation and knowledge of his job. "Ho's right on the ball," said General McClure this week, clasping him around the shoulders in a gesture more understandable to Chinese-speaking Ho than McClure's American idiom...
...youthful Scriptwriter Isherwood-a parlor pink who lives with his adoring mother and brother-Director Bergmann is awe-inspiring. "His head . . . was . . . the head of a Roman emperor, with dark old Asiatic eyes ... big firm chin . . . harsh furrows cutting down from the imperious nose . . . bushy black hair in the nostrils. . . . But the eyes were the dark, mocking eyes of [an emperor's] slave-the slave who ironically obeyed, watched, humored and judged the master who could never understand him; the slave upon whom the master depended utterly, for his amusement, for his instruction, for the sanction of his power...
Here is a photograph of the Selma Burke plaque of President Roosevelt. . . . Comparing it with the photograph published in TIME [Sept. 17], you can see how dreadfully the latter distorts the sculptured head, elongating it from tip of chin to tip of crown, what would amount, I think, to at least two inches. . . . I will say, however, that the plaque was extremely hard to photograph, especially with flash, as the light would bounce off the bronze into the lens of the camera. That is undoubtedly the reason the A.P. photographer took the picture from such an extreme offside angle, thereby...
...army were all over the place. Only a few companies of Lung's troops did any shooting, and the Dragon never had a chance. On the fourth day Premier T. V. Soong flew down from Chungking. He and the Chinese commander in chief, General Ho Ying-chin, had a morning conference with General Lung, that afternoon escorted the amiable old scoundrel by air to Chungking. General Lu Han, Lung's former aide, took over the Yunnan government for the Generalissimo...