Word: chins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chicago Bureau Chief Loye Miller had been following the Illinois campaign since the day Charles Percy announced his intention to run. In Boston, Correspondent Dave Greenway, collaborating with Bureau Chief Ruth Mehrtens, topped off the close coverage of the campaign by tucking napkin under chin and sharing Edward Brooke's night-be-fore-election "soul food" dinner of pigs' feet and Moet et Chandon champagne. Los Angeles Bureau Chief Marshall Berges, who lives a scant two miles from Ronald Reagan and had followed the candidate's progress for 18 months, did not remember any champagne. "It added...
...told, a machine of considerable-and relentlessly moving-parts. Becaud at work stomps his feet to the rhythm of a song, darts to the piano to hammer out a few chords, hangs his chin on an accompanist's shoulder in a quest for greater intensity, even strolls out into the audience to invite a sing-along during some of the merrier numbers. Spotlighted in shameless mauves and chartreuses, caressing the microphone, pushing his husky voice from tenderness to remorse to rage, Becaud makes it seem that singing about love may be the world's oldest profession...
...women like to rest at the very base of the steps. They lean against a side block or let their bodies sag forward until only the support of a forearm wedged between chin and knee prevents them from closing completely around themselves. A vinyl handbag lies near-by and its bright color is a surprise against the grey stone and gray...
...Negro community. Palmer and other workers teach that there is a black community to which black men and women can be proud to belong. The way Palmer presents it, most of the lesson is history. He recited a typical lecture as he sat hunched over his hospital office, his chin on his hands so that they formed a parentheses for his goatee...
Apart from extorting an estimated $15,000 a year from local rubber-plantation owners and workers, Chin's gang appeared quiescent for almost a decade, but now is believed to be actively roaming Thailand's four southernmost provinces in league with the native Thai Reds, who operate farther north. In his own propaganda, Chin insists that "we are only resting in Thailand," but few Bangkok officials buy that. Says one: "Chin Peng worries us a little. But we will deal with...