Word: chins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hellish Malayan prison camp such as Panchor. The thought has never for a moment occurred to Chaplain Choyce. He is known to the officers and men as "the Padre with-the Modern Approach." .Bustling with professional cheerfulness, he has a pat formula for every distress and a manly chin-up sermon for every misery, but he is about as spiritual as an auctioneer. And then he meets Andros, a soldier whose inability, or unwillingness, to identify himself is taken by the British medics behind the barbed wire as a sign of malingering. Chaplain Choyce discovers in the swarthy soldier...
...features of the trip was a beard-growing contest. Entries were judged solely on the basis of quantity and strength of chin hairs, variety of color combinations, length of individual hairs, pattern and shape of beard, and a"all around beauty...
Cloutier took the chin spinach championship, growing a black, semi-bushy van dyke...
...canals) that made Siam's capital an eastern Venice. Strawhatted boatmen on the wider canals that crisscross the rice-rich central plains to the north had told it to farmers' wives in houses perched on stilts. Up the great rivers, the Chao Phraya, the Mekong, the Tha Chin, the Ping, the Si and the Mun, it had gone with wandering merchants thumbing barge rides. On the lips of mendicants with shaven heads and shaven eyebrows it had traveled through cobra-ridden jungles where tigers lurked and elephants lurched, and on into the cool, airy teakwood forests...
...favorite Frankfurt party icebreaker in which a man & woman kneel face to face. One crumples a sheet of Kleenex into a ball and holds it between his (or her) chin and shoulder and attempts to transfer it without the use of hands to a corresponding position on a player of the opposite sex. Only ironical rule in this organized nuzzling: participating couples must not be man & wife...