Word: chins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...George R. Henderson, commander of Task Force 77, listened to his pilots' reports on the results of their strike. One pilot's instruments had been damaged by enemy ground fire; another thought his plane had been hit too. A young ensign with peach-fuzz stubble on his chin indicated an enemy marshaling yard on the admiral's map. "We got a train here, sir, about ten or eleven cars." "Did they all burn?" the admiral asked. "No, sir," the ensign replied. "I think one group of five and another group of four burned." The admiral seemed satisfied...
Kenneth ("Tea & Crumpets") Gape [whose elder brother was unwilling to accept an English inheritance, TIME, May 28] appears to share the illusion of many otherwise well-informed Americans that Britons are still taking it on the chin because they have a Socialist government, clearly does not realize that the tight little island is out of joint (and out of Sunday joints) mainly because of the beating it took while helping to beat Hitler...
...four husky MPs led him across the floodlit yard of Landsberg Prison. On the gallows platform, a U.S. Army hangman was waiting for him. Blobel (responsible for the killing of 30,000 Jews at Kiev in 1941) got 90 seconds for his last words. Thrusting out his spade-bearded chin, he cried: "I die in the faith of my people. May the German people be aware of its enemies...
...Chin Up. In the fall of 1949, said Acheson, "it was the clear, unequivocal recommendations of the military services that we could not employ any of our forces for the defense of Formosa [see box]. It was estimated that no amount of U.S. aid short of military occupation and control would insure Taiwan's indefinite survival as a non-Communist area . . . Without U.S. military occupation and control, Taiwan,* like the rest of China, probably would be under the Communist Chinese control...
...paper . . . was to minimize the fall which everyone had agreed was inevitable, rather than as an exposition of U.S. policy ... I don't know any other attitude which would be sounder to take than to say keep your chin up, it doesn't matter, this isn't important...