Word: chins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intolerable conditions that the seamen struck. Better pay and decent food, shore leave, protection against brutality-these were among the modest demands of men who continued to show their deposed officers elaborate courtesy and swore unshakable fidelity to the Crown. After token conciliation at Spithead, the government set its chin. In the Nore anchorage at the Thames mouth, a troubled old admiral named Charles Buckner listened with some sympathy to the complaints presented by the elected "president" of the mutineers, Richard Parker, the son of a grain merchant who had once been an officer himself but got cashiered for insubordination...
Anthamatten looked up from his bulldozer, and later reported, "the mountain came down toward us. I ran, but not for long. A giant wind blew me down. I kept crawling on my hands and knees. I was engulfed by ice; it covered me to my chin. I was caught by the very tip of the slide. I could hardly breathe, but I yelled. Some Italians came and pulled me out. The others ran in different directions. They were never seen again...
...answers came, the President sat with his chin cupped in hand, giving his undivided attention. The discussions ranged over five major U.S. policy possibilities. An all-out war, including the use of nuclear weapons, was discarded immediately, as was a U.S. withdrawal. To the President, the first was too dangerous, the second unthinkable. Letting things go on pretty much as they are, in the vague hope of achieving a stalemate, without substantially increasing the U.S. commitment was offered as a third possibility. But General William Westmoreland, the U.S. field commander, had urgently requested more men, and to turn him down...
...Chin Up. Controversy is nothing new to the businessman who controls 60% of the bank's stock, President Chin Sophonpanich, 54. He made-and lost -several fortunes in the export-import trade, fell out with the late Prime Minister Sarit Thanarat, and lived outside the country from 1957 until last year. Even in his long exile in Hong Kong, Chin used his wide international contacts to build up the bank's foreign business, left its local affairs in the hands of a youthful staff. Whatever its reservations about Chin, the government is happy to see his bank prosper...
...birthday party, it could have passed as a wake. Russia's Nikolai Fedorenko slouched in his chair, appearing, if possible, more morose than usual. Britain's Lord Caradon glumly stroked his chin. In the Secretary-General's chair, U Thant looked about as happy as an undertaker. Outside San Francisco's Opera House, where 1,000,000 persons had massed in the streets to cheer the birth of the United Nations 20 years ago, fewer than 2,000 were now gathered; inside were row upon row of empty seats. Adding to the gloominess...