Word: chins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through the arteries to the brain, where it cuts off part of the circulation and causes unconsciousness and paralysis. Dr. Kruse told the diving crew to carry the patient to an examining room. Inexperienced at the job, they let the unconscious man's head sag forward until his chin touched his chest. At the same time, they were holding his waist and legs higher than his head and shoulders. Dr. Kruse noticed a twitching of the paralyzed side of the diver's face; there was a barely perceptible motion...
...abundance that today it has become the Adipose Society. Following the early '50s, when the postwar boom set off what Germans call the Edelfresswelle, the gorgeous gobbling wave, buttocks and bosoms have expanded even more rapidly than the economy, and doctors have recognized two universal ailments: Doppelkinnepidemie, double-chin epidemic, and Hängebauch, or bellyhang. The majority of Germans, from newborn babes to Cabinet ministers, are fatter today than at any other time in this century. A top dietetic authority estimates that 20% of all West Germans are overweight. In a new book titled Grow Thin...
...from my barracuda side," she seems to have no real vanity about her appearance, willingly adopting whatever face best fits a role. But she admits that she "en joyed being glamorous" in Sweet Bird of Youth, and in the early acts of Strange Interlude she quite unnecessarily wears a chin strap, presumably to youthen herself...
...slip 'twixt the Lip and his cuppa. In the fourth round, his left eye nearly closed, blood dribbling down his cheek, Cooper lurched around the ring-swinging blindly, charging his tormentor like a maddened bull. Clay was the contemptuous matador-casually eluding Cooper's rushes, sticking his chin out, daring Cooper to hit him. Then it happened. "Clay is down!" screamed the BBC announcer. "Cooper has downed him! Oh, a beautiful punch there!" The "beautiful punch" was a sucker left hook; its chances of landing must have been 1,000 to 1. But land it did, flush...
Hailwood leaned forward along the M.V.'s gas tank, resting his chin on a sponge rubber shock absorber, hiking his legs up like a jockey. He rocketed through "The Bungalow"-a series of left and right bends-at more than 100 m.p.h., steering by shifting his weight from side to side. Flat out on the straights, he gunned up to 150 m.p.h. Hailwood sped six times around the twisting course and flashed across the finish line more than 2 min. ahead of his closest competitor. Astonished officials announced that he had broken the course record with an average speed...