Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shifts in personnel within the party or Cabinet or both, which would transfer the Government's center of gravity a foot or two toward the true democrats. But after the session the same group had the same firm grip on the party: Communist-hating War Minister Ho Ying-chin; the Chen brothers, leaders of the notoriously reactionary CC clique; Finance Minister H. H. Kung...
...Marie Louise Elkins) pecks at a dozen aspects of the war without getting its teeth in any of them. Playwright Hurlbut started with a card index instead of an idea. Her little community on the New England coast had to find room for a teen-age war bride, a chin-up war widow, an airplane spotter, a girl confused by pacifist upbringing, a World War I veteran who re-enlists, an old maid who finds a Nazi uniform buried in the dunes, the Nazi spy who buried it. For fear all this might be too meager, Playwright Hurlbut threw...
...Vanderbilt Whitney (kin to one from New York); Mrs. George Washington Kavanaugh (ermine, a diamond tiara, a diamond & emerald necklace & pendant, diamond earrings, eleven diamond bracelets); Mrs. William Ellerbe (blonde), Nedenia Hutton (blonde, too); Mrs. Harrison Williams (annually on the ten-best-dressed list), who remarked of her gown, chin up: "It's an old dress, but it's French...
...When at his first press conference after the North African invasion President Roosevelt talked of how he had to sit smilingly and take it on the chin while ignorant outsiders were clamoring for a second front when a second front had already been determined on, correspondents knew that he was not excluding Mr. Willkie from this category of ignorant outsiders...
...second front: such a move took months of custom-building. All through the late summer, while a worldwide controversy raged over the second front, he and Britain's Prime Minister Winston Churchill had already determined their move: they had to sit by and "take it on the chin." Recounting the events now, the President leaned back in his big chair, puffed contentedly on his cigaret...