Word: chins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more demerits for cutting drill or for sloppy shoes. The next time the commanding officer shook his head in disgust, muttering about the shame of being assigned to teach Harvard men the art of war, it wouldn't be on account of Vag's dull brass or stubbly chin. If you're going to do something, do it right, Vag reasoned...
...only will power achieves. Beyond that, Painter Cassatt was blessed with psychological penetration as unwelcome in the Victorian age as it is prized today. In the picture opposite, the baby's burgeoning life subsides to bedtime weariness. Relaxed and perfectly possessive, the child clasps its mother's chin. The mother is peaceful too, but stiff in her tight bodice, and careful to hold her baby securely until it sleeps...
Violinist de Vito, a handsome, erect woman with grey hair and dark eyes, was opening-night soloist. On the concert stage, she showed her Latin dash at once, tucking her violin under her chin with a flourish, then working both hands in the air to limber them before attacking the music. Her tone had none of the acid brilliance of a Heifetz, but in roundness and warmth resembled Kreisler's. She scorned fireworks or virtuosity. "She is an artist," said one De Vito fan, "not a virtuoso." In the Vivaldi concerto last week her violin was warm and passionate...
...proposal Confucius had made two centuries before. As finally formalized, the system classed aspiring civil servants into three general types: the hsiu-ts'ai, or "budding genius," who could pass the basic district examination; the chii-jen, or "promoted man," who passed provincewide tests, and the chin-shih, or "achieved scholar," the man who passed an examination at the national capital...
Tennis Partner. The man in whose name the street mobs prevailed had fled his native land three days before. Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the Shahinshah, arrived in Rome with a two-day beard on his chin, accompanied by his disheveled, 21-year-old Queen, who was on the verge of tears. That night, unable to sleep, the Shah paced the living room of their three-room suite at Rome's showy Hotel Excelsior. With his personal pilot, Major Mohammed Khatami, he talked over future plans for a pleasant exile. "He asked me to stay with him," the major said later...