Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fair Wyoming morning last week, Hollywood's Wallace Beery rose up early at his ranch in the rugged Jackson Hole country, donned an old shirt, blue denim pants and cowboy boots. He put on his big black Stetson with the chin strap, grabbed his trusty six-shooter and climbed aboard his trusty white mare. In the fresh morning air he rode through the fertile valley to join a posse of ranchers...
American airmen in Britain are still talking about their last raid on Bremen (TIME, April 26). Then, as never before, they took it on the chin: 16 Flying Fortresses and 144 highly trained men . went down, other planes and crews were badly shot up. At one base, the night after the raid, an entire barracks was empty. The loss was serious, its effects were prolonged. Replacements had to be whipped into shape, squadrons and crews had to be broken up to scatter the experienced survivors among the newcomers. Until May 1, when new crews were trained, damaged planes repaired...
...chant "Doo-chay, Doo-chay, Doo-chay I" urged Mussolini to make an ap pearance. He did. For the first time since Dec. 11, 1941, he lifted up his chin and spoke in the Piazza Venezia...
...stands 6 ft. 2½ in., weighs 210 lb., an excellent size for a Presidential candidate. At 49, his hair is solid silver. He has a comfortable double chin, the kind of American nose that looks best under a baseball cap. He likes double-breasted blue suits, decorously striped ties, black shoes. He wears a broad gold Masonic ring, carries a gold-pocket watch, keeps a diamond American Legion pin in his coat lapel...
...Dimmy") Dimitman's handshakes with reporters and deskmen were perfunctory, and his looks were all against him: round-shouldered, reed-thin, with a small chin and a mousy little reddish mustache. A few hours later the staff liked his looks a lot better...