Word: shinning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wildcat attack of his own. His men are on guard at all the prison camps except Camp Eight, where balking Chinese prisoners are kept; ROK guards might turn loose all North Korean prisoners who refuse repatriation. Rhee's delegate to the truce talks, Major General Choi Duk Shin, boycotted one session, and Rhee commended him for "high patriotism." General Choi told correspondents: "People ask me if we can fight alone and win. I tell them you do not fight only when you know you can win. You fight because you have to fight...
Long-barbed durum wheat-the kind that is good for pasta-is turning gold in Sicily and Calabria. Soon the harvest will begin, rolling up the toe and shin and length of the Italian boot-possibly a bumper crop like last year's. Meanwhile, there are almonds to be picked on the rolling plains of Puglia, forage grass to be cut in the lush Po Valley, cherries to be picked off the greyish flatlands around Naples. And a bumper crop of tourists-perhaps 6,000,000 -is descending on Italy, eager to be harvested. To the tourist...
...Matthew Warren, religion and education have always been one. "Education," says he, "is organic to life, and not just pasted on life like a shin plaster." As far as he is concerned, there will be no shin plasters at St. Paul's. "A church school should be more than a school. I should like my contribution to be in the field of being a good pastor for the boys, teaching them to come to grips with their lives on the highest possible level. But I am not going to St. Paul's with any high-flown theories...
...Knowlton and Johnny Beer at right outside and right inside respectively. Either Roger Taylor or Captain Dick Craven will be in the goal, and at the three halfback posts will be Bob Harding, Larry Leonard, Humphrey Doermann, Callahan, or Bobby Dean. Bernard Florin, regular center half, has an injured shin and may not play...
...work in a plant got his shin barked by a small hand truck. After the slight wound had healed, his leg became infected. A hospital gave him treatment, but after two weeks at home, he felt progressively worse. A few days later he died. An autopsy showed he had had a skin disease and was sensitive to any small wound. Thus his widow and children received lawful benefits from the company, which did not examine the man close enough to detect the disease when he began work there...