Word: chins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wants such permission must appear at a police station, give what the government considers an acceptable reason for wearing one-an acting job, a scar on the chin. If the police approve, he must then carry around, like a driver's license, a special permit stating specifically his reason for having a beard. Others had better stay clean-shaven...
...more manlike than apelike, and reclassified them as Kenyapithecus africanus. Unlike the rectangular, one-rooted molars of apelike creatures, for example, the Kenyapithecus' molars were triangular and had two roots. Its incisors were in line with its canines; ape incisors protrude in front of the canines. Kenyapithecus' chin projected slightly to the front of its teeth; an ape's chin recedes behind its teeth. To Leakey, the proof is undeniable: "Man's separation from his closest cousins-the apes-is now carried back more than a million generations...
Chamberlain showed up seven days late at the 76ers' pre-season training camp last fall. Hannum fined him $1,050 ($150 a day) and invited Chamberlain into a private room for a little nose-to-chin-whiskers chat. Announced Chamberlain: "Hannum is a helluva coach. I don't always agree with what he says...
...Only the Chin. Deiss's book discloses another archaeological irony. "Of the whole face of Herculaneum," he writes, "we have seen thus far only the chin." Systematic excavation has been halted since before the war. Most of Herculaneum still sleeps beneath millions of tons of volcanic stone; all of the forum, for instance, the heart of every Roman town, is completely enshrouded. "It seems incredible," Deiss concludes, "to discover a buried treasure...
Painstaking prying into rabbits' habits has revealed that their territorial boundaries are staked out by the dominant male in each group. In a process called "chinning," he brushes his chin over twigs and stones on land that he claims; a gland in his chin deposits a distinctive scent that makes his own group feel at home but warns away outsiders. By simulating these scents, the Australians hope to ring pasture lands with odors that will keep marauding rabbits out. False chin trails may lead the unsuspecting animals directly to poisoned bait...