Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowds roared, Mickey Sullivan dribbled over his chin, the publicity men rubbed their hands, and the show stank. O.K., O.K., So you never saw a Poon-pic. Well, there were, and nobody that wasn't anybody ever tried to horn in. We've always worked through nice people, well, like Ann Sheridan, or Marjorie Woodworth...
...Chungking to Sian (400 miles, five hours), went on by train to the Yellow River (70 miles, five days, one wreck, one washout). There they gave him a horse, and for three solid weeks he rode ten hours a day, sometimes on ledge-narrow mountain trails, to reach the Chin Valley. He got there just in time to send us one of the most important dispatches of the war -about how the Chinese had routed the Japs in the Chungtiao Mountains. (The Japs haven't completely occupied Shansi...
With no Gallic kiss, but a handshake, sensitive General Henri Giraud (five stars) greeted sensitive General Charles de Gaulle (two stars) at Maison Blanche airport near Algiers this week. The leader of Fighting France looked pale, his slight double chin sagged tiredly as he reviewed a company of the Garde Mobile. Said he: "Bon jour, mon général. . . ." Said Giraud: ". . . Très content de vous voir." Then, in a blue Packard sedan, with General Georges Catroux (five stars) sitting between them, Generals Giraud and de Gaulle rode off to the long-awaited parley for a united...
...average Swede is 5-ft. 7-in. tall, has blue eyes, sometimes grey. He is a predominantly Nordic type, has flat temples, prominent chin, lean jaws, thin mouth with long upper lip, sloping shoulders, shallow chest, slender waist, relatively short trunk, long legs. The hair texture is prevailingly fine, sometimes medium...
...newfangled notion that public debt can go on growing forever without doing any harm got a sock on the chin last week. The blow was aimed primarily at Assistant Secretary of State Adolf A. Berle Jr. and Professor Alvin H. Hansen, special economic adviser to Federal Reserve System, whose articles have appeared in FORTUNE. Peripheral victim: the National Resources Planning Board...