Word: chins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...corner in the simple black suit with the simple thin tic. His hair seems a little grayer than the pictures, but the curling side-burns over the car and that lock of hair which always hangs out of the pack over the forehead give him away. Notice the chin, the forthright chin of a politician who doesn't know enough to pull it back in before they knock it off. He's a dead ringer for a politician, a liberal politician like Hal Holbrook in "The Senator," and the term would be more widely used if it weren't considered...
...charges from the Indian right that his policy of nonalignment meant "appeasement" of Communism. Gradually, Gandhi's white-capped protege became a hardhat on the Tibetan border question; that meant siding with those who thought that India should press its extremely doubtful claim to Chinese-held Aksai Chin on India's northwest border and a stretch of the Himalayan foothills in the northeast...
...through 14,500-foot-high passes along Thag La Ridge, a windswept rim along part of the disputed border between Tibet and northeastern India. At the same time, more Chinese forces sprang into action 900 miles to the west in another disputed area, the sere wasteland known as Aksai Chin, or Desert of White Stone...
Only Aksai Chin, which lay along the shortest route between China's Sinkiang province and Tibet, was really important to Peking; neither area meant much to India. In 1958, when an Indian patrol confirmed rumors that the Chinese had built a road across Aksai Chin, Nehru felt compelled to act. He reiterated angrily that India's borders were "not negotiable" and dispatched troops to the disputed areas with orders to establish Indian outposts and "clear out" the Chinese. Evidently, Maxwell says, Nehru believed that Peking was too timid, weak or unconcerned to do much about the "forward policy...
...Boss Tweed because it was devoid of acrimony and humorlessness. Johnson never mauled his opponents. For a period of rounds he would lay back, content with controlling the other fighter and enjoying himself. From time to time, he would challenge his opponent to take a shot at his unprotected chin and then smother the billow, accompanying the defensive maneuver with an offensive flurry of his own. A showman, as well as a master of ring psychology, Johnson converted a fight from a contest into a personal exhibition. He would defeat his opponents only after he had made them feel...