Word: chins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Duke did his best to face the problem as, say, the Ringo Kid might face it. The effort was not altogether successful. When Actor Larry Parks confessed to having once been a party member, newsmen raced to John Wayne for a statement. Caught without a script, Duke fingered his chin, said it was too bad that Larry had been a Communist, but damn courageous of him to admit it. He hoped, he added, that the confession wouldn't hurt Larry's career. At a mass meeting soon afterward, M.P.A. Vice President Hedda Hopper put the record straight. John...
...Jack Barnaby said he thought the team rebounded well from its loss in the Nationals last Saturday. He especially praised the play of Captain Jom Bacon, who took over the number two spot. Dave Symmes also earned Barnaby's praise for winning his match after being hit in the chin by a racquet during play...
...keep than dames of high degree. She was generally a sight less meddlesome. "All matters of state with her soul she does hate," the broadside ran, "and leaves to the politic bitches." And not least: "When he was dumpish, still would she be jocund / And chuck the royal chin of Charles the Second...
...Chin Hong, a 40-year-old New York laundryman, had already mailed his $700 life savings to China, to buy his relatives out of a Communist jail. When a letter arrived last week demanding $1,000 more, Chin, depressed and penniless, tried to commit suicide. In a frenzy, he attacked three policemen who tried to stop him. They shot him in self-defense...
...hours after Chin died, Treasury Counsel Emanuel Minskoff told a press conference in New York that the U.S. Government is calling a halt to the Chinese Reds' long-distance shakedown. During the past year the Communists have bled millions of dollars from Chinese-Americans with relatives imprisoned in China. The payments benefited the Communists, but not their victims. Some were executed while relatives in the U.S. were still signing ransom checks...