Word: chins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Four years after the Korean armistice, most of its Western allies were itching to get a chunk of the Red Chinese market and unwilling to agree that trade with Red China should be subject to heavier restrictions than trade with Russia. Only Turkey, of all the 15 nations comprising CHIN-COM (the voluntary committee founded during the Korean war to coordinate a selective embargo on Red China) supported the U.S. insistence that the "China differential" should be maintained. At Bermuda two months ago Prime Minister Harold Macmillan had warned Eisenhower that if the U.S. did not agree to major easements...
...Social Democrats, ordered Ignotus, among others, set free. Paul and Florence met for the first time. She, at 33, was somewhat recovered from her prison experience; he, at 56, accustomed to long sessions "at the cinema," was hollow-cheeked and scraggy-necked, with bowed shoulders, but with a jutting chin and a strong, level gaze. A couple of weeks later they were married...
...Terrible Johnny" long before police got anything on him), joined Big Jim Colosimo in Chicago as chief triggerman in 1910, gathered the reins of vice (bribery, brothels, bootleggers) into his own hands when Colosimo was rubbed out (in 1920, perhaps by Torrio), escaped erasure (but lost part of his chin) in a 1925 bullet riddling, and left for New York, where he later ran an outfit acquiring Government revenue stamps for bottles of cut whisky. In 1939 Torrio was jailed for 2½ years for income-tax evasion, settled in Brooklyn after his release and lived until...
...anxiously watched his fighter, Robinson's manager, George ("The Emperor") Gainford, noticed a Fullmer weakness: the champion was dropping his hands after taking a body blow. Before the fourth, Gainford advised Robinson to throw a right to the heart, and then follow with a left hook to the chin. Robinson nodded. He saw no chance in the next round, but midway through the fifth, Robinson drove a right into Fullmer's body. In Pavlovian style, the champion lowered his hands, and for a split second uncovered his chin. It hung there, as naked and as obvious...
...policeman fingered his chin. Should he take the thing to jail or to the city dump? And then all at once it started running. In an instant the entire police force was in hippopotamous pursuit. Horses bolted; pedestrians bounced like skittles. But just as the long arm of the law was on his shoulder, the fugitive took a flying leap at the tummy of a startled fat lady. As he hit head first, her midriff split up the middle and swung inward like saloon doors. The fugitive plunged through-and disappeared...