Word: chins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 22,000 fight fans went to see the show. The boys slugged, slapped, tugged, butted, pushed, did everything but reach for their water bottles. In the first round, Baer went after the fresh wound on Galento's chin which Tony's disgruntled brother had caused by slinging a beer glass at him two nights before. By the seventh round Galento was spouting blood, reeling drunkenly, his eyes closed, his head throbbing where he had landed with a running, broad butt at Baer's jaw. When the bell rang for the eighth round, Galento...
...harder and oftener at political cartoons than at the editorial pages. Franklin D. Roosevelt was a caricaturist's "natural." But his cartoon character did not evolve overnight. At his nomination in 1932, top-flight Cartoonist "J. N. Ding" (Jay Norwood Darling) had already caught Roosevelt's cowcatcher chin and vaudeville grin. Added later were weightier jowls, up-jutting cigaret holder that make up the now-familiar Roosevelt caricature...
...Roosevelt. Quick as a counterpunch, his textile workers, clothing workers, hosiery workers, Sidney Hillman of his executive board, defied him, plumped for a Third Term. John Lewis settled his chin in his neck and glared...
Early in the week the Japanese struck. Lookout stations on the border of Szechwan Province spotted the planes, flying high. Chungking authorities were notified. Alarm sirens wailed. All over the city frantic Chinese hurried out in the open, crying "Chin pao! Chin pao!" ("The alarm! The alarm!"). In the downtown areas, where shopkeepers had built wooden stalls over the ruins from last May; up on the hill, where the livid scar of a huge incendiary-bomb fire had been covered with a town of mat sheds; across the Yangtze River, where the U. S. Embassy stands-all through the city...
...frumpish German princess with healthy bad manners, Caroline was at first misinformed into expecting a happy marriage with a handsome prince. Met at Gravesend by George's most politely poisonous mistress, she took it on the chin from then on. At first sight of his betrothed, the swollen Prince retired to a far corner and asked for brandy. Their subsequent battles stirred up almost as much fuss in England as the contemporary Napoleonic Wars...