Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this time when England has been taking it on the chin because of her definite stands in Greece, Italy and Belgium, it seems logical that the U.S. should make her ideas on policy clearly understood to the world. Could it be that we again find ourselves without a foreign policy in Europe...
...Spirit achieved the longest run of any straight play in London's history. It had to play through months of robombing to overtake Charley's Aunt, the title holder for 50 years; it will have to run more than another year and a half to catch Chu-Chin-Chow, London's (and the world's) longest-running musical-2,238 performances...
Through the Hard Years. General Chen relieved General Ho Ying-chin, 55, who had held his post since 1930. Minister O. K. Yui relieved H. H. Kung, 63, the Generalissimo's brother-in-law, who is now in the U.S. These were the men who had helped steer China through the country's most difficult years of war. Now it was up to their successors to steer through the difficult years ahead. But H. H. Kung remained as vice president of the Executive Yuan. General Ho remained as Army chief of staff...
...open back seat of a Packard touring car, Candidate Roosevelt set out, bundled to his white-stubbled chin in a beaver-collared overcoat, his old brown campaign fedora scrunched on his balding poll. Beside him sat Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, shivering in a lightweight topcoat, his nose and chin blue with cold. The sky was lead-colored, the wind sharp. Franklin Roosevelt coughed occasionally and his eyes watered behind his pince-nez. But at Poughkeepsie, Wappingers Falls, Kingston and Newburgh, he waved his arm, grinned, bobbed his head vigorously, spoke cheerfully to the street crowds...
...been working on a no-quarter basis, is supposedly the first woman to be admitted to the rim of a Pacific Coast copy desk, is known to be equipped with a sulphurous vocabulary. She gets news in brusque, traditional police reporter fashion, chases ambulances at any hour, sticks her chin into any situation. Her writing is straight, sometimes awkward, always humorless...