Word: chins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Red of his prospective opponents: "Let these hams primp their feathers and strut their plumes. I will proceed to maltreat and obliterate them. I will turn loose such terrific voltage and velocity and elliptical trajectory that when it lands on the cleft of the chin it will tear loose their medulla oblongata from the pericranium, cure them of chronic dandruff and knock out four of their impacted wisdom teeth." Whereupon Wild Red went into the ring and was promptly disqualified by the referee for refusing to break a hold when ordered. Wild Red took a deep breath and applied...
Jawaharlal Nehru and his Indians seemed just as anxious to please. Nehru had run 2,500 friends of Red China out to the airport in 50 chartered buses so they could shower Chou with rose petals and cry out "Chin Hind bhai bhai" (Chinese and Indians are brothers, brothers) as the black-garbed Communist walked down the ramp. Nehru had Chou garlanded with flowers, led him around a guard of honor...
...French have moved in 1,000 troops, including a detachment of Moroccan goumiers (who dote on killing Tunisians), some black Senegalese, and colonial infantry with tanks. There is also a new civilian controller, a hulking 200-pounder with clear blue eyes, a granite chin and a flair for calm heroics-Jean Paul Desparnets. 41. Raised in North Africa, where his father taught Arabic, Desparnets goes around unarmed in an open jeep. He is a career civil servant of France, and has served with U.N. commissions in the U.S. and Peru. Almost daily he receives notes from the fellagha. The latest...
...there's anything wrong with her nose, but we didn't want it to broaden under the bright, flat light"); shaded her cheeks to "minimize the puffiness" and darkened her neck so that "if she keeps her head up the folks won't see her double chin." Tastefully dressed in simple Sally Victor hats and Hannah Troy dresses ("We figure they won't be obsolete for five years," explains Producer Walter Colmes), Amy appears on the screen in a set modeled after her own living room. As she speaks in her mannerly, well-modulated voice...
...then he seems to be on the verge of tears; first his voice roars out of the courtroom and echoes through the corridors, then it is a barely audible croon. Before he is through, the sweat is rolling down in rivers on his face and dripping from his chin to the floor. His style has gained him a nickname: "The Terror of Tellico Plains...