Word: chinned
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...week long official Washington was trying to look concerned but calm, determined but not belligerent. It was a difficult, and perhaps impossible, role to bring off. The Administration was trying to wear two faces without looking like Janus: a militant, chin-out attitude towards Korea; an unruffled, unmilitant countenance for the rest of the world to see. Harry Truman indicated he would not be stampeded into ringing all the alarm bells to put out a fuse-box fire...
...television sets in the lounge, a large cosmopolitan-looking crowd watched the antics of two children's puppets named Foodini and Pinhead, later switched to the ball game at the Yankee Stadium. Weary John Chang went to sleep sitting up on a couch near the bar, his chin resting on his briefcase...
...Chin and Kachin guerrillas. But in the Irrawaddy valley and along the Rangoon-Mandalay railway line, it has made more progress in the past month than in the previous year. Prime Minister Thakin Nu has said that as soon as Bur,ma is pacified he will become a Buddhist monk. He may possibly have his wish...
...first time before he was besieged by reporters, photographers and authors' agents. Bender flew on to Chicago forewarned-when he arrived he hurried out, hustled his pretty wife back into the plane and did not reappear until he was smeared with lipstick from forehead to chin. At week's end both men still acted as though they had found themselves a runaway roller coaster-and loved the giddy sensation...
...hellish Malayan prison camp such as Panchor. The thought has never for a moment occurred to Chaplain Choyce. He is known to the officers and men as "the Padre with-the Modern Approach." .Bustling with professional cheerfulness, he has a pat formula for every distress and a manly chin-up sermon for every misery, but he is about as spiritual as an auctioneer. And then he meets Andros, a soldier whose inability, or unwillingness, to identify himself is taken by the British medics behind the barbed wire as a sign of malingering. Chaplain Choyce discovers in the swarthy soldier...