Word: chins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...factories. Built and operated by the university, the factories produce equipment ranging from quartz-tungsten lamps to logic circuits for third-generation computers. The university also plans a petrochemical plant. "The purpose of these factories is to serve as a base for scientific experiments," explains Tang Chin-wen, 39, the textile-mill technician whose ardent agitprop work won him the leadership of the university. "It is to change the situation that prevailed before the Cultural Revolution, when practical knowledge was divorced from theoretical knowledge...
Chang Wen-chin, director of the foreign ministry's American, Western European and Australasian sections. Chang has served as Ambassador to Pakistan and as head of the ministry's Asian section. He accompanied Chou to the 1954 Geneva negotiations on Indochina. Moscow-educated, he is also fluent in English and has served as Chou's English-language interpreter. He is likely to head the ministry's new North American department...
...places, spaced about 500 ft. apart, a plaque instructs participants to perform a specific exercise that is repeated from two to 15 times-the hardest near the beginning of the course and the less difficult, relaxing ones scheduled toward the end. At some of the stops appropriate equipment, like chin-up bars, has been installed. The methodical Swiss say that the participants' pulse rate should rise to about 160 beats per minute by the time they reach the finish...
...moment at least, Britons were taking it on the chin. For one thing, they have been enjoying the mildest winter in years, so power shortages have not yet raised public ire. For another, the miners' demands for pay increases of up to 25% have considerable public sympathy. Their basic salaries now range from $47 to $78 a week. Moreover, the government had reacted with something less than urgency to threats of a strike, which had been bandied about since summer...
Treated were: Travis Cook, the Business School student, for injuries to the left leg and right hip; Ingrid Carlson of Tufts, for skull injuries; Nancy Rowe, also from Tufts, for chin and forehead lacerations and contusions; and Joan Synansvich of Tufts for a fractured left...