Word: chins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pageboy wig and leather buskins, is Prince Val stepping off the page. Janet Leigh, in a palomino peruke, makes a pretty Aleta, James Mason a swart and athletic villain. A couple of vikings, Victor McLaglen and former Heavyweight Champ Primo Camera, with their grunting and spluttering through chin-wigs, give a show that can only be matched by the Wednesday-night wrestling on television...
...climbed out onto the Georgetown cobblestones at the end of the trip, he seemed as fresh and springy of step as ever. But as he got into his chauffeur-driven Oldsmobile to go home, certain marks of wilderness attrition were unmistakably evident: somehow, somewhere, Justice Douglas had got his chin into some poison...
...must return his glance, see again the compressed lips from which the teeth stand out as a caricature. How the skull structure has pushed forward against the flesh of the cheeks which are flattened by a tremendous pressure, the skin of the forehead pulled back, the flesh of the chin sagging . . . Poor little superman...
...McCarthy's real trouble began behind the closed door of President Dwight Eisenhower's office. When Republican congressional leaders began to leave after their regular Monday conference with the President, he asked them to sit down again. For the next 45 minutes, Dwight Eisenhower, his chin jutting, insisted that McCarthy must no longer be allowed to pass himself off as spokesman for the Republican Party...
...Kingmaker. McCarthy's voice never faltered and Cohn's chin never quivered as they set off their counterbattery fire. But the reckless fury of their salvos proved that Joe McCarthy stood pinpointed as never before in his public life. Nobody was challenging his rights as a Senator. Nobody was attacking his license to hunt Communists. But the Army, in taking aim, could not have been more menacing. It had drawn a careful bead on the one-man subcommittee's real brain, the precocious, brilliant, arrogant young man whom McCarthy had come to regard as indispensable-"as indispensable...