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Word: chins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they had no trouble recalling the name. It was Long-Russell Long, old Huey's 31-year-old son, who was speeding through the state, heralded by sound trucks, stumping for re-election to the U.S. Senate. The same tousled black hair stuck to his forehead, the doughy chin trembled as he made his ten speeches a day and crunched cough drops in between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: The Price of Education | 7/24/1950 | See Source »

...week long official Washington was trying to look concerned but calm, determined but not belligerent. It was a difficult, and perhaps impossible, role to bring off. The Administration was trying to wear two faces without looking like Janus: a militant, chin-out attitude towards Korea; an unruffled, unmilitant countenance for the rest of the world to see. Harry Truman indicated he would not be stampeded into ringing all the alarm bells to put out a fuse-box fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: What It Takes | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

...television sets in the lounge, a large cosmopolitan-looking crowd watched the antics of two children's puppets named Foodini and Pinhead, later switched to the ball game at the Yankee Stadium. Weary John Chang went to sleep sitting up on a couch near the bar, his chin resting on his briefcase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Brave 474th | 7/10/1950 | See Source »

...Chin and Kachin guerrillas. But in the Irrawaddy valley and along the Rangoon-Mandalay railway line, it has made more progress in the past month than in the previous year. Prime Minister Thakin Nu has said that as soon as Bur,ma is pacified he will become a Buddhist monk. He may possibly have his wish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURMA: Sunshine Over Moonshine | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

...first time before he was besieged by reporters, photographers and authors' agents. Bender flew on to Chicago forewarned-when he arrived he hurried out, hustled his pretty wife back into the plane and did not reappear until he was smeared with lipstick from forehead to chin. At week's end both men still acted as though they had found themselves a runaway roller coaster-and loved the giddy sensation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Through the Looking Glass | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

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