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Word: shin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bunions & Shin Splints. Last week, two years older and a lifetime wiser, Linda helped lead the 49 Rockettes and 28 members of the corps de ballet in a strike that revealed how low life at the top can be. The girls, members of the American Guild of Variety Artists, are demanding a 40% raise in salary over the next three years; the management is offering only a 15% hike. A first-year Rockette currently makes $99 a week, or $26 less than the lowest-paid Music Hall stagehand. That breaks down to $4.12 a performance or roughly 20 a kick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chorus Girls: For 2 Cents a Kick | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

...these days is a dog-eared copy of The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Manhunting. During their 90-minute break between shows, which one dancer wearily describes as "too short to do anything important and too long to do nothing," the girls sleep or nurse their bunions and shin splints...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chorus Girls: For 2 Cents a Kick | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

...proved an almost impossible task. If any message emerged from the pandemonium, it was that Paris this year doesn't know where fashion is going. Skirts went from six inches above the knee (often worn with thigh-high boots) to mid-shin to ankle length (in some cases worn with frilly pantaloons). For color, black was back-hardly news to raise a cheer round the world. The results, wrote Gloria Emerson in the New York Times, "seem to be dresses for women who can't stop rereading old love letters." In the end, what Paris did have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: It's Andre & Yves | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

...that is taking his family to the gas chambers at Oéwięcim. He learns to kill while traveling with a band of Polish partisans. Eventually, he goes to Israel, where he continues to kill-first the British, then the Arabs. Later, as an assassin for the Shin Beth, the Israeli secret service, he is assigned to liquidate two former Nazis who are developing atomic rockets for the Egyptians. It is soon apparent that Rothberg is retelling the history of the Diaspora in this century. Not only has Nissim experienced the full horror of Hitlerism and the hardships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Avenger of the Faith | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...Murray also has a rather tiresome preoccupation with feet. There are about fifteen too many kicks in the shin, foot-stamping or foot-smelling routines in the show...

Author: By George H. Rosen, | Title: Love For Love | 9/29/1966 | See Source »

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