Word: chins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mind the image of an epileptic patient whom I had seen in the asylum, a black-haired youth with greenish skin, entirely idiotic, who used to sit all day on one of the benches, or rather shelves against the wall, with his knees drawn up against his chin, and the coarse gray undershirt, which was his only garment, drawn over them inclosing his entire figure. He sat there like a sort of sculptured Egyptian cat or Peruvian mummy, moving nothing but his black eyes and looking absolutely non-human. This image and my fear entered into a species of combination...
...swaggers about the slums of Rome in what he demurely describes as "sportswear": moldy sneakers, maggoty jodhpurs, a blazing blazer apparently made from an old American flag. His head sticks up like the little bald ball on top of a flagpole. His nose and his chin all but meet in front of his mouth, as though trying to hiri-d-and well they might. His mouth is a little round hole that looks as if a big fat worm lived down there-and one does. Beneath the comic mask is a tragic figure: Capannelle has a tapeworm and no teeth...
...British Governor-General's nose in the federation's plight, burly Federation Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky then rose to rail at Britain's "unparalleled treachery and deceit." Chin out, fists clenched, his voice trembling with anger, Welensky cried, "The interests of the white man and the ordinary moderate African in his thousands are being sacrificed in a long-drawn-out act of appeasement which puts Munich in the shade!" He charged that Britain intends the continent as a whole to "be handed over to racialism, whether the cost be a Congo or an Algiers...
...annual tournament. A hapless adulterer, surprised by strolling teen-agers as he waits for an assignation on the beach at night, has to take to the sea fully clothed. " 'Water's great; he croaked, trying to sound carefree. His necktie was floating in front of his chin...
...Harvard last February a capacity crowd jammed the hall. They filled every seat, every inch of floor space, window ledge and platform until the man at the lectern was practically engulfed Looking somewhat bewildered by the crush of humanity Van Doren stood quietly, hand touched lightly to his chin in a characteristic gesture...