Word: breast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...generally conceded first places in the 50 and 100-yard sprints, the dive, and the backstroke; the Elis, however, will probably pick up some points for second and third places in these events. Yale's chances for first places in the 220 and 440-yard races and the breast stroke are considered to be excellent...
Eliot's string of victories may be attributed to a well balanced team, to point-pickers Cann, a diver, and Dodge, a breast-stroker, and to relayers Leonard, Cann, Welles, and Dodge...
Rightists to such a point that a Nationalist newspaper once greeted him editorially with "Blum! Blum! Blum! Your name is like the sound of bullets entering a traitor's breast. Blum! Blum! Blum!" Last week the peculiar detestation Leon Blum is capable of arousing nearly cost him his life and sent France careening around a sharp, dangerous political curve. In a car driven by Socialist Deputy Georges Monnet and with Mme Monnet at his side, Socialist Blum edged too close to a Royalist funeral procession. The militant mourners were young, cane-swinging stalwarts of the Action Franchise, supporters...
...skinny, scrappy son of a Pittsburgh butcher chested up to another boy in a squabble over small change. The other boy placed the tip of a slim butcher knife to the pugnacious one's left breast, asked, "How'd you like to be stabbed," pushed hard. Unaware of the stabbing, the butcher's son walked ten paces before he collapsed from a perforation of his heart...
...bundle of washing under my arm. When I arrived I found General Petain surrounded by staff officers. I handed my bundle to a soldier. Then I was taken out on parade, a battalion of French soldiers presented arms and General Petain pinned the Legion of Honor on my breast. It was a proud moment...