Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experts wag the solemn chin...
With his farmer's spare frame, his mechanic's hands, his stubborn chin and his restless eyes, his quick opinions, his respect for makers and the things they make, his dual personality and his rebellion against orders, Henry Ford is more like most Americans than most Americans realize. Henry Ford and his empire have converted themselves to war. The whole automobile industry has gone to war. Detroit-and not only its Henry Fords but its Bud Goodmans and Frank Morisettes and Eddie Hunts and Roscoe Smiths-had gone to war. The whole U.S. nation was going to roll...
China's War Minister Ho Ying-chin warned the world (see p. 18) that Japan would probably launch an attack on Russia within a month. In Chungking the official Central Daily News did a little goading: "Russia . . . should take the initiative and strike first, rather than wait to be struck...
...hours her captors tried to make her talk. They flogged her with a leather belt, punched her with their fists. They held lighted matches to her chin. They scraped a saw across her back. They walked her, at bayonet point, barefoot through the snow for hours...
When he took up quarters in the Army's Munitions Building, airmen eyed him narrowly. His expression told them nothing. They saw a slim, bald man with a brooding, priestlike face distinguished by a finely chiseled nose, a determined chin. But Army airmen, a friendly lot, were bowled over when they were called to Bob Lovett's office and asked to help him to find out the score of the grim game he had entered...