Word: chins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Convicted Teamsters Boss Jimmy Hoffa last week braced himself before U.S. District Judge Frank Wilson in Chattanooga and prepared to take it on the chin. He got it. Wilson slugged Hoffa with a sentence of eight years in prison and a $10,000 fine for trying to bribe a jury that was hearing conspiracy charges against...
Understandably, Higgs has not returned and won't "until the state undergoes a major political revolution--Negroes in all levels and offices, submitting rights bills of their own in Congress." When asked how long this will be, Higgs frowns pensively, rubs his chin, and drawls slowly, "two years maybe less . . . it will probably take total Federal occupation, of course." This penchant for precise numerical prediction is most interesting when focused on the civil rights bill, for Higgs has displayed an incredible touch for Washington politics. Last summer he and several law students drew up an "ideal" civil rights bill, which...
While these good things were happening, disaster lurked in the wings for another freshman team. The track squad took it on the chin from powerful Exeter Academy in a close 60 1/2-57 1/2 meet which hung in doubt until the last event...
Lifting Its Chin. Acting much like a developing country, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia has begun to offer tax breaks, low-cost land and long-term 4% loans to new enterprises. Tempted as well by cheap river transportation and by West Germany's biggest floating labor pool (due largely to the mine layoffs), more than 100 foreign firms have settled in the Ruhr since 1961, including 63 Japanese companies and a battery manufacturer from Israel...
...Paul VI show annoyance at the ceaseless importunities of the newsmen. In Capernaum, where he knelt to pray in the ruins of a synagogue where Christ himself is said to have preached, Paul drew back in dismay when a radio newscaster thrust a microphone directly under the papal chin...