Word: chins
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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...
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...
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...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...
...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...