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Word: chins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...That was very long ago. The shadows on your chin are a superficial manhood. The world has tricked me. Time, that peddlerman, has done his bag of tricks, and here...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: The Vegetable Generation | 12/12/1957 | See Source »

...professional writer, you really have to take it on the chin," asserted John P. Marquand '15 last night. The Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, who is living in Kirkland House, addressed a large audience in the House Junior Common Room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Marquand Reviews Early Years To Illustrate Writers' Hardships | 11/21/1957 | See Source »

After dining with friends at one of France's best-known groaning boards, Maxim's in Paris, Monaco's Prince Rainier III, still sporting his summer crop of chin whiskers, and Princess Grace, radiantly pregnant, were all abeam. Grace's second child (all Monaco is praying for a boy) is duer in March. Next stopovers for the Grimaldis: London and then New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 4, 1957 | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...college girlfriend, Eva Marie Saint fills what is essentially a small and not overly interesting character with an agreeable kind of sweetness and light. And Elizabeth Taylor is still the most beautiful film actress today, despite the alarming evidence of a double chin. It takes little charity to forgive her occasional deficiencies as an actress...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Raintree County | 10/19/1957 | See Source »

Just as angry was BOAC's Managing Director Basil Smallpeice, who let Bristol have it on the chin. When Bristol's short-range Britannia 102s finally went into service from London to Johannesburg last February, said Smallpeice, they were 19 months late, which held down BOAC's net profit in fiscal 1956 to $850,000. Yet the 102's tendency to ice at high altitudes has still not been licked. During 1956, Bristol tried to correct the icing, which caused dangerous flameouts. Finally, it devised a still not entirely satisfactory solution: a platinum glow plug "pilot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Humiliation for Britain | 9/23/1957 | See Source »

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