Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final medieval touch: a helmet hinged on each side of the head just above the ears and locking over the center of the chin. It stems directly from a 15th-Century Italian helmet called armet-a-rondelle. But it fits handily over an oxygen mask...
...strength. But, on the Burma borders, Allied power is already manifest. In the north, an Allied push clawed forward on schedule. Columns of crack Chinese troops in three weeks had advanced 50 miles, were at the southern tip of the 50-mile-long Hukawng Valley (see map). In the Chin hills to the south and west, where opium-smoking tribes men are still loyal, the British claimed the west bank of the Chindwin. The campaign has a limited but sharply important objective: to pry a right of way through the Jap-held hinterland for the builders of the Ledo Road...
...When he said: "I have nothing to confess," they opened its doors (there was a typed inventory of its contents on the inside of the door) and brought out implements of leather and steel, neatly hung on hooks. Stripped, he was bent over a table, his head down, his chin pressed against the rough wooden board smelling of carbolic soap. The first three strokes seemed to split his body in two. "Each new stroke lit up an electric bulb behind his eyeballs and caused an explosion inside his skull. He heard himself burst into long, savage screams, felt his bladder...
...King's Men. The King of Italy is a small man with a Savoy chin, a fat income, an unfortunate record, and the backing of constitutionality as interpreted by the Allied military mission which operates in the present "capital" of Italy. Badoglio has the stocky build of a peasant, the twinkling blue eyes of Northern Italy, a soldier's sense of duty and the current sympathy of U.S. and British military men and diplomats...
...cameras clicked until Black Jack put his cane aside and drew himself to attention-grey Homburg untilted, old eyes straight, grey mustache clipped, chin drawn in, black suit pressed to razor edges, black shoes gleaming. Then he wheeled and marched inside to talk with the President. A newsman said softly: "Here we go again...