Word: chins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...streets, as fighters roared overhead, youngsters danced and shouted. Newly arrived Jewish immigrants from Iraq and North Africa watched the festivities, shyly amazed at the sight of husky girls in shorts. One old woman, her veil dropped just below her chin as a compromise with the Moslem custom she had always known, crouched silently for 30 hours on a Jerusalem street corner, spellbound by the goings-on in her new homeland. To make the newcomers feel at home, villagers at two new settlements, halfway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, performed Kurdish and Arab dances instead of the Jewish ones...
...Agriculture Committee to defend his order. Who, asked Cattle Congressman W. R. Poage of Waco, Texas, will bear the brunt of the rollbacks? Won't it be the ranchers? And what immediate relief, asked another representative, can consumers expect? For hours Mike Di Salle took it on the chin, supplied generalities rather than facts & figures. Finally, he stepped wearily down with the comment: "I'm bleeding." Snapped Committee Chairman Harold Cooley of North Carolina: "He made out a woefully weak case...
...eating fan, which every girl is after a week of college food, Chin's Chinese Village, also on Route Nine, offers Oriental and Occidental dishes, while the 1812 House, farther along the same road, specializes in fine old American meals...
Holiday Mood. Everybody cheered. Even those who hadn't made up their minds on the military course that MacArthur recommended cheered the man-the returning hero to whom the nation was paying its belated thanks. They cheered a man of chin-out affirmations, who seemed a welcome contrast to men of indecision and negation. A good many in the crowd saw Douglas MacArthur as a symbol of a kind of patriotism that still existed for them even if sophisticates dismissed it as oldfashioned. They felt that, at the very least, a great soldier had been wronged...
China's Red press described the liquidation of one "batch," numbering several hundred. Tien Feng had wrecked locomotive boilers in Peking's railroad shop. Li Chih-hsiang had ruined wind gauges, wind pumps and water pumps. Tung Hua-chang had inspired workers to slow down. Chin Han-kui had fabricated 90 false rumors against the government. On their way to execution, the victims were paraded slowly through Peking's streets to the scenes of their crimes, where death was meted...