Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arnold had gone into infantry when he left the Academy in 1907, switched to flying in 1911, taking lessons from the Wrights and becoming one of the Army's first four military aviators.* From the start he was a spectacular airman. He still has a scar on his chin from the crack-up he prizes most. Hanging in the wreckage of his plane off Plymouth Beach in 1912, he saw help coming: two old codgers in G.A.R. uniforms in a rowboat. They passed him by; they were against airplanes...
...steps per minute, which became known to us as the "Stilwell Stride," the iron-haired, grim, skeleton-thin General walked into India with tommygun on shoulder at the head of a polyglot party of weary, hungry, sick American, British and Chinese Army officers, enlisted men, Burmese women nurses, Naga, Chin and Shan tribesmen and a devil's brew of Indian and Malayan mechanics, railwaymen, cooks, refugees, cipher clerks and mixed breeds of southern Asia...
...Manhattan. Born Moses Gershonovich in Russia, he was shipped to the U.S. by his parents when he was nine, was managing actors at 17. In his early years as a co-producer with F. Ray Comstock he presented some 50 shows, among them the fleshly Aphrodite, the gaudy Chu-Chin-Chow and Mecca. Wild-eyed, wild-dream-ing, moody, self-dramatizing (he affected long hair, curvaceous hats, a Windsor tie), he was famed for damning the expense (he spent more than $600,000, most of it borrowed, producing The Miracle, went bankrupt when it folded in Dallas). At various times...
...Chin, Chin, Chinaman" rolled off the tongues of an isolated and peculiarly ignorant U.S. people a few years ago, until the fortitude of the Chinese people in their suffering opened American eyes. Since mid-April, when the 1942 United China Relief drive began, the U.S. public has given evidence of new understanding-not charity out of pity but charity out of the esteem of people for people. By last week contributions neared...
Coach Jack Barnaby's Varsity tennis team took one on the chin yesterday afternoon when they went down to defeat by a score of 6 to 3 before Miami University, but the beating was nothing to be ashamed of, for Miami, boasting Bill Gillespie, who is among the top 20 in the nation's national rankings, has one of the strongest contingents in the country...