Word: chins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...party loyalist. It was that quality, coupled with his own complete honesty and steely determination, that brought him through the ranks, first to the chairmanship of the key House Appropriations Committee, then to the Speakership. Arbitrary and cantankerous, piercing gray eyes flickering from a ruddy, chin-whiskered face, he might expectably have been hated by his colleagues. He was not. At the end of his first term as Speaker, Republicans and Democrats alike joined to give him a loving cup as a "mute token of our affection...
Shadow Boxing. One of the troupe's most extraordinary acts is the longpole trick. One acrobat casually balances a 16-ft. bamboo pole between his shoulder and chin. A second climbs aboard, shins up to the top, and once there slowly swings his legs out parallel to the ground. Putting one foot in a velvet loop attached to the pole, he stands, then reaches down to a third acrobat, and the two perform a series of elaborate hand-to-hand exercises...
THAT much-abused political adjective charismatic has never been applied to Robert Lome Stanfield. In personal appearance and public demeanor, he makes Richard Milhous Nixon seem almost gaudy. His balding head seems to come to a point, his chin is somehow thin and droopy at the same time, his lips look pinched even when he smiles, and he has a fondness for gray suits. Even after five years as Canada's Opposition Leader, Stanfield conceded that "there are a good many Canadians to whom I'm still a bit obscure...
...first contact with the big name professors came at a Currier House Ice Cream Bash given by co-Masters Paul Levine and Ursula Goodenough. We were amazed to eat ice cream with a Nobel Laureate while chocolate syrup dripped down his chin. But although we were nervous, things went well, and our experience at the Bash made us relatively certain that professors would be willing to talk to fledgling freshmen...
...paint the branch well, and you hear the sound of the wind." The words of Chinese Painter Chin Nung were quoted by Kawabata in his Nobel Prize speech. Here, despite Translator Seidensticker's efforts, Kawabata's language does not come across as Japanese readers say it should-like strung-together haiku. Yet, even stripped of some of its verbal blossoms, the bare outline of the branch emerges. For readers willing to listen intently, there is the unmistakable rustle of the wind...