Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lana Turner is a superbly tough and toothsome foil for Mr. Gable's masterful routines. She can so tilt her chin that, in any posture, she suggests that she is looking up from a pillow. Clark Gable has had better parts before. But in his closing speech on Bataan, he develops real heat and resonance that suggest a rather moving transition from the celluloid fictions which, for years, he has made likable, into facts which, for the duration, will be his obscure, more serious business...
...Every student should be able to chin himself ten times, push up from the ground 20 times, run 100 yards in less than 13 seconds and do the 100 yard obstacle course in 24 seconds," asserted Norman W. Fradd, assistant director of Physical Education, in defining the goal of the conditioning program...
...Chin Up. The Battle of the Pacific has demonstrated the need for flyers who can handle themselves in water. Preflight cadets are taught to swim in waterlogged uniforms, to master the chin-up breast stroke instead of the crawl, to swim under water, to strive for endurance rather than speed. At the end of the three-month course, each man should be able to stay afloat for five hours...
...Stilwell's crowd. We drove about 150 miles west in the trucks and jeeps and then had to abandon them one by one if they got stalled even for a few moments. We were ordered to save out only what each one thought he could carry up the Chin Hills and abandon the trucks. I knew we would have to take care of all the sick in the company of 105 who followed General Stilwell out, so I ordered each nurse to carry some first-aid articles in addition to her own stuff. So they each took...
...athlete. She dresses with elegant plainness -sometimes in colors to match a ginger-brown French poodle which she leads on a pink patent-leather leash. Her dark hair falls in a long bob; her eyes are bright blue, a little gap between two front teeth emphasizes her firm chin and nose...