Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the uncoordinated also-rans that took it on the chin from Penn to monsters to the tune of 35 to 6, Harlow-tutored Odell has wrought a well balanced unit which comes into Saturday's climax game with victories over Princeton and Brown...
Play of the Cards. With chin up, bulging brief case and a staff of lawyers and experts, the manufacturer then traipses to a regional price-board office, starts trying to take the tricks which may decide whether he makes or loses money for the duration. The board scans the books and the company's records, checks & double-checks for the six major factors: 1) production quality, 2) delivery rate, 3) inventive contribution, 4) cooperation with other manufacturers, 5) economy in the use of raw materials, 6) efficiency...
Then the heavy program began. Willkie was driven through Chungking's crowded, cheering streets. He visited a meeting of the Chinese Cabinet, which was tussling with the inflation problem. He talked with China's Chief of Staff General Ho Ying-chin. He talked with the Gissimo through the fluently translating Missimo. At President Lin Sen's mansion Willkie sampled a succulent Chinese-French cuisine including poisson du Yangtze au bain Marie and champignons du Fukien á la volaille. Willkie tried chopsticks, but quickly fell back on knife & fork...
...seethed with indignation. The Laval-Pétain duet was conking out. Its collaborationists' burbling was drowned by the rattle of machine guns outside hostage camps. Laval fired arch-collaborationist Jacques Benoist-Mechin from his job as Secretary of State, on the ground that Naziphile Benoist-Méchin had conspired against him. In the next breath Laval told newspapermen that his "Government was based on "solid foundations," remarked that rumors of its fall were "laughable...
...gridiron. Only six days a week of practice and they held it behind those tall fences where no one could tell whether you were working or not. And look what the experts had said about the team this year. Why, they were only children--Vag stroked his sparsely stubbled chin--they were green and inexperienced...