Word: chins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...table at a Paris bistro because "I had found him so charming and cultivated at a dinner we had attended together." The charming Irishman floored La Fayette with a couple of well-oiled punches, sending him to the hospital for three days to have his gashed lip and chin patched up. Peter finally apologized for the "disagreeable incident." The count nobly agreed that "the whole thing should be forgiven as an affair between gentlemen," although "of course our lawyers are still conferring" about damages...
...Chin was not the first "human bomb" to be operated on successfully by American combat surgeons [Nov. 12]. During the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942, Navy Fire Controlman Allen L. Gordon, aboard the battleship South Dakota, was struck by a 20 mm. antiaircraft shell that pierced his intestines and lodged near his left hip. He was taken to a makeshift field hospital on a South Pacific island, where the live shell was removed by three Navy doctors (of whom I was one), working around a chin-high screen of armor plate...
Turning from hand to hand at a crowded reception, the General pours out conversation--his lower chin ripples, his legs spread wide apart to support his heavy frame, and a broad smile sends the deep wrinkles in his face scattering under his white hair. The voice rises from a point near the bottom of his chest where the bands of medals end. "I'm one of those fellas," he says, "who always wanted to be a lawyer and never got to be. In my day bein' a lawyer meant bein' a politician--but I guess I'm pretty much...
...dialogue smacks of a vintage Saturday-afternoon serial, but his fears are well grounded. A kidnaped professor possesses a secret formula for distilling the lethal essence of the Black Hill Poppy from Tibet ("A pint can kill every living thing in London"). Fu's evil daughter (Tsai Chin) seizes the professor's daughter as hostage and undertakes the dirty deeds formerly assigned to such exotics as Anna May Wong and Myrna Loy. There are vestiges of the old potency in the farfetched fights, a sinister drowning apparatus in a hideout below the Thames, the mass destruction...
Mann looked like a nightmare version of Santa Claus: a mop of white hair, a red, emphatic nose, and a tangle of untamed whiskers that parted beneath his chin. He also had the noisy energy of a stern-wheeler and the predacity of a buccaneer...