Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taller than 5 ft. 7 in., but they have been got into walloping condition by tall, dark Coach Louis Weintraub, who toured Japan with Michigan's championship basketball team in 1929. He calls his squad the "Commando Class" and puts it through such daily musts as 20 chin-ups, 75 pushups, 30 dips on the parallel bars and a 20-ft. pole climb in less than ten seconds without using the legs...
...boys who partook of matrimony last week and brought back their subsequent weekend entertainment with them. For myself, after four sleepless nights on a furlough ticket, mid bawling offspring, and with special attention to one dear three-year-old, name of Ralphy, who rode backwards in the seat ahead, chin hung over the back, drippin' orange juice, and with the most unexplainable silly grin on his face for a solid 600 miles, I will be content to go on running my chances at the Touraine with the multitude...
...Gissimo's Minister of War, bespectacled, anti-Communist General Ho Ying-chin, told New York Times Correspondent Brooks Atkinson: "There will be no civil war. . . . The Generalissimo's plan to solve the Chinese Communist problem by pacific and political means is progressing satisfactorily with every chance of succeeding...
Like all American bombers, the Superfortress is heavily armored and gunned (with .50-caliber machine guns). There is a chin turret in the nose, a ball turret in the belly, a turret atop the fuselage and one in the tail...
...Tang, a well-known Chinese musician and graduate of the Chinese National Institute of Music and now studying at Yale's Graduate School of Music, will play some typical Chinese instruments; the hoo-chin, similar to the western violin in construction but with a different tuning scale, and the pee-bah, comparable to the Occidental guitar, will be demonstrated. Indian and Turkish students may play some of their instruments also, notably the Indian flute. Native folk songs and Chinese opera scenes will be presented against an Oriental backdrop of Chinese landscape murals...