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Word: chins (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chin-ups & Blivits. Like all other SAC operations, the airborne alert routine is fenced by narrow restrictions and standardized procedures. Briefing is held a week prior to scheduled takeoff. On take-off day, other crews run through the three-hour preflight checks on the alert bomber to lessen the fatigue of the crew going on duty. Take-offs are scheduled for around 10 a.m. to allow for a full night's sleep. (The crewmen's physical condition is attested by the fact that they must be able to run a reasonably fast 250-yd. dash and perform five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: SAC'S DEADLY DAILY DOZEN | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

Even more startling is the picture that emerges of the Soviet police as either numskulls or brutes. Two unlovely types are the Cheka plainclothesmen: Boiko, with his dimples and "effeminate, rosy cheeks," and Khizhnak, who has a knife scar running from ear to chin and has been known, during an "interrogation." to gouge out the eye of a suspect. Both are murdered by White officers who prove gentlemanly enough to spare the Cossack driver: "Several shots had been sent after him, but evidently more in order to frighten him than to hit him, for he said they whistled high above...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Extraordinary--for Russia | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...Chin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 17, 1961 | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...your article on A. C. Gilbert, you state that he once broke the world chin-up record, which was at that time 63. Could you please tell us what the current world record is, and who is the current world holder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 17, 1961 | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...Minds. The statues uncovered at Nippur portray a cross section of Sumerian society. A priestess standing majestically with a ritual cup in one hand and a branch in the other hobnobs with an old woman with a matronly double chin. A bearded man and his wife sit holding hands in one of the very few Sumerian double statues ever found. A carefully carved woman is made of a translucent green stone not yet identified. Her face is of gold-a metal that was believed to possess purifying properties and was frequently used for the noblest parts of the sculptures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: THE LEGACY OF SUMER | 2/3/1961 | See Source »

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