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Word: chins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...local woman commune member, Yeh Hsiang-shu (poor peasant), cut off and stole from this production group seven heads of white cabbage totaling 6 chin. Yeh, when forced to speak, had to admit that her husband Chou Hsing-jung had also stolen some vegetables. The production group seized Chou also, then took man and wife, with hands tied, and hung them by the wrists from the basketball goal for ten minutes. Then Platoon Commander Yang Ju-hsing announced two conditions: "First, they must give us back 3,000 catties (two tons) of cabbage; second, if they do not give...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nude on the Basketball Court, and Other Chinese Stories | 4/1/1966 | See Source »

Lamb and Jones were physically perfect for their roles. Lamb, with a forehead dripping stringy hair, a mouth missing front teeth and surrounded by a grizzled chin, moved across stage with shambling feet and hands that shared time twitching and scratching. The hulking Jones mastered the vacant grin and the dead, controlled stare of a man who ever since the doctors removed the "pincers" from his skull "couldn't look to the right or the left . . . just straight ahead...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: The Caretaker | 3/23/1966 | See Source »

Violinist Isaac Stern, 45, bowed solemnly to the audience, tucked the fiddle under his chin, and began a vibrant performance of Schubert's Ave Maria. Suddenly, he vibrated a few perfectly awful noises, fudging the notes with the middle finger of his left hand. Stern's audience was the U.S. District Court in Philadelphia, which was hearing an $85,000 damage suit brought by his old friend, Violinist Eric Rosenblith, who claims that an attendant at a car-rental agency in Allentown, Pa., slammed a door on his fingers, thereby impairing his ability to perform. After the rental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 11, 1966 | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

...Aren't you tired of being called a sex kitten?" asked a feline voice above the press conference din in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel. Brigitte Bardot, 31, stuck out her chin and quite a bit of the rest of her, and allowed that she just "adored" the title. In the U.S. for the first time to heat up publicity for her new movie, Viva Maria, B.B. put on her sexy behavior and a bra for the occasion. "Will you ever marry again?" a questioner hollered, and Brigitte explained, "I think better without husbands." When one catty correspondent asked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Dec. 24, 1965 | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

...tries to support a statement about psychology, love, and the malaise of Western Europe on the spindle of the spinning black wheel. But because Demy presents neither the development of the characters nor the dynamics of the game, we cannot see much above or below the croupier's stubbled chin...

Author: By Rand K. Rosenblatt, | Title: Bay of the Angels | 12/15/1965 | See Source »

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