Word: chins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chin is cupped in one hand, a ball-point pen in the other, and opened on his lap is a large notebook with lined pages. Occasionally he stirs, his eyes focus, and in tidy, cramped handwriting he adds a sentence or two to the notebook, already largely filled. To a visitor the pages look vaguely familiar. Then realization dawns. The black-inked notations and tidy sketches of winged and wheeled vehicles, streamlined contours and odd mechanisms are startlingly reminiscent of the famous illustrated notes penned by Leonardo da Vinci five centuries...
...encroachers. "I've heard more anti-Japanese sentiment in working-class bars than I can remember," says Richard Kjeldsen, a University of Southern California financial specialist on the Pacific Rim. Japan bashing easily becomes Asian bashing. The most famous case is the 1982 murder of Chinese American Vincent Chin by Detroit autoworkers who thought he was Japanese. As late as 1985 and 1986, violence against Asians jumped 50% in Los Angeles County. Says Henry Der of Chinese for Affirmative Action: "We're still vulnerable because of what we look like...
...Mongol Empire forged by Genghis Khan in 1206 was one of the most astonishing creations in history. His cavalry pierced the Great Wall of China and overwhelmed the Chin Empire in what has been described as the conquest of 100 million people by 100,000 soldiers. It was Genghis Khan's grandson Batu who first swept into Russia. When Kiev resisted, Batu besieged the city in 1240, burned it to the ground and massacred all its inhabitants. "When we passed through that land," wrote Archbishop Plano Carpini, a papal legate bound for the new power center in Mongolia, "we found...
...happily spent his formative years as a successful public relations flack in New York City. Where other conservative columnists like George Will and William F. Buckley can be precious and predictable, Safire prides himself on his reporting and contrarian thinking. "A column should not be a chore, not a chin puller, not a dreary thing," Safire says, trying to summarize his approach. "You don't have to be solemn to be serious." Then with a sense of satisfaction at the epigrammatic elegance of that last sentence, he adds, "I think that's original...
...were pretty confident going in," 158-lb. Captain Tim Kierstead said. "We knew they weren't as strong as they have been in past years. We kind of took it on the chin last weekend, but we had a good hard week of practice and were ready...