Word: breast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...electric with resentment. Thirty thousand Mexicans stood silent and dry-eyed as pyjama-clad workmen bore past them the 27 flag-draped coffins. Behind the coffins trudged women, heads covered and bowed, some with armloads of white lilies, others with dark rebozos draped over nursing child and naked breast. At the cemetery an angry, white-faced priest shouted: "Long live Christian democracy...
This month Mamadou Kane, accused of collaboration with the enemy, stood before a Paris court of justice. For two hours he wept, beat his breast, gestured royally, proclaimed his innocence like a prophet...
Harry Truman, Gridiron Target No. 1 for the first time, saw a newsman dressed in double-breasted grey suit, handkerchief sticking from his breast pocket, singing Wanting You to Joe Stalin. What the real Harry Truman had to say in reply was-by Gridiron custom-off the record...
...Hence we see men in arms behaving harshly and madly. We see their sword bury itself in the breast of a disarmed enemy who is in the very act of pleading at their knees. We see them triumph over a dying man by describing to him the outrages his corpse will endure. We see Achilles cut the throats of twelve Trojan boys on the funeral pyre of Patroclus as naturally as we cut flowers for a grave. These men, wielding power, have no suspicion of the fact that the consequences of their deeds will at length come home to them...
Jerry German will start in the 220 and the 100 yard races; Frank Krayer will do the backstroke; and Gulio Vielman will swim the breast stroke events. Steffens and Tom Droham are scheduled to do the diving, and Ted Norris will compete in the 440. Starters in the other events have not yet been decided...