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Word: shin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rafer Johnson whose family were so poor that they lived in a boxcar on a railroad siding. The only thing the two-day, ten-event contest has done for California's Bill Toomey, 27, and Russ Hodge, 26, is run up their doctors' bills. Bill suffers from shin splints and heel spurs; Russ has bursitis in his elbow, tendinitis in his knee, and strained ligaments in his ankle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Track & Field: What Price What Glory? | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...effective. Suspects are encouraged to talk by a rifle fired just past the ear from behind while they are sitting on the edge of an open grave, or by a swift, cheekbone-shattering flick of a Korean's bare hand. (Every Korean soldier from Commanding General Chae Myung Shin on down practices for 30 minutes each day tae kwon do, the Korean version of karate.) Once, when the mutilated body of a Korean soldier was found in a Viet Cong-sympathizing village, the Koreans tracked down a Viet Cong, skinned him and hung him up in the village...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Other Guns | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

Isser Harel is one of the most respected men in Israel. For 15 years he directed Shin Bet, the nation's secret intelligence organization, which ranks as one of the world's finest. When the peppery little superspy retired in 1963, it was only natural that the government should invite him to continue to make his talents available on an advisory basis. And so it did. Last year Harel became personal adviser to Prime Minister Levi Eshkol on matters of state security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: The Worried Citizen | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

Harel's nameless successor at Shin Bet sharply opposed anyone's meddling in security and twice threatened to resign. Forced to choose between the two, Eshkol typically compromised: he kept Harel at a desk but gave him nothing to do. After ten months of inactivity, Harel last month angrily turned in his badge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: The Worried Citizen | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

...invitation reads BLACK TIE. So much for what the man wears. But even if his wife is on the best-dressed list, she will still call up her friends to find out how they are going to play the shin game-covered or exposed? Now two top American designers, Norman Norell and Jimmy Galanos, have trotted out their spring collections. And what is the new trend? Short, says Norell. Long, says Galanos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Long & the Short of It | 1/21/1966 | See Source »

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