Word: chins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cupped Chin. The next blow fell at the home of a near neighbor of the Prime Minister-India's Solicitor General Hem Nath Sanyal. Late one night four men broke into Sanyal's bungalow and choked him to death with a dhoti, or loincloth. Since Sanyal had been pressing corruption charges against several ministers of Orissa state, members of Parliament cried that his murder must be connected with the investigation-though Delhi's police insisted it was only a robbery attempt...
...Gunther had left it at that, his book would be a fascinating fictionalized reminiscence. Unfortunately, he succumbs to the Viennese weakness for whipped cream, mountains of it, wherever possible. After a connubial kiss on page 20-"Bending over and with his hand cupped like a trowel he lifted her chin"-Jarrett's hand more often resembles a shovel. His amatory adventures are mawkish, his professional exploits downright unbelievable: before the book's end he has even manned a machine gun to help fight off the Heimwehr...
...even his mother would have readily recognized India's Home Minister Gulzarilal Nanda. Sitting in a small unmarked car parked at the edge of New Delhi's grain market, Nanda was wearing dark glasses, a long coat buttoned to his chin, and a turban whose tail covered his lower face. Thus disguised, he warily watched hundreds of Communist-led marchers demonstrating against India's food prices, which have risen 22% in the last 18 months -almost as much as the price rise over the previous ten years...
...most tellin« comment on any editorial page is often contained in a brief line that emphasizes a chin, droops an eyelid or curves a mouth. Under the pen of a skilled cartoonist, a man's face can become a political comment, and Barry Goldwater has a face that most cartoonists find a delight to limn...
Miss Wilson, for example, played a very elegant woman. For the most part she did a good job. She did not fidget; she sat with her back very straight and her chin held about an inch above normal; she had a reserved smile. But when she walked she put her shoulders forward a little, and when she stood, she placed her feet about 15 inches apart. Those two items jarred. The woman she was playing would have walked and stood otherwise, though her stance was fine for the girl in Three...