Word: breast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Them. Little (5 ft. 7 in.) Ambrose Ondrak is literally at home among the carcass-luggers and breast-splitters who sweat in the packing houses, among dirty-faced kids playing in vacant lots. He was born among them, of Czech immigrants, 54 years ago. As a boy he joined gangs, played sandlot football. On school holidays he weighed beef in the packing houses. In 1924, after he had been a priest for six years, he was sent to St. Michael's in the Back of the Yards district as assistant pastor. Since the pastor of St. Michael...
...Yardling aggregation setting the style for their elder brothers, topped the Bruins 44 to 31 earlier in the evening. But here Milton Brier of the foe breast-stroked his 200 yard way for a time of 2:32.9 and the record mark of the first year Providence visitors...
...nosed out by Jerry Gorman in the 220 freestyle, it was clear which way the tide would continue to flow. Paulson acquitted himself, however, in the closest event of the meet, as he touched the wall a stroke ahead of the Crimson's Chuck Hoelzer in the 200 yard breast-stroke...
...Gromyko is sent every day to prod him with a sharp sickle, now on his beak, now under his wing, now in his tail feathers. All the time the eagle keeps quite still. But it would be a great mistake to suppose that nothing is going on inside the breast of the eagle. I venture to give this friendly hint to my old wartime comrade, Marshal Stalin...
Drawing deep down into their reserves, the Varsity took the quarter-mile with ease, and the final free style relay was captured by a motley crew that included a distance man and a breast-stroker...