Word: breast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, unable longer to cope with mail, phone calls and visitors seeking the great designer, Editor Cousins made a clean breast of it. Said he: "If the incident results in a single hat that looks like a hat, Old Gus will not have died or lied in vain...
...green, blue and gold-bordered reception salon of the Government Palace, the Archbishop of Paraguay administered the oath of office in the presence of 150 uniformed and full-dressed witnesses. President Morinigo, in a red & blue uniform with the red, white & blue band of office across his breast, read a speech which established continental solidarity, internal totalism and progress as the program of his regime. He led the procession (thoroughly guarded) to the Cathedral for Mass, returned to the Palace for a popular reception...
Most of the men who go down to the sea in ships at one time or another cross the line. The line means a whole lot to these men; there is a venerable air and a patriarchal feeling that permeates the breast of an old shellback as he nears the 30th parallel...
...difference right there, he noted as he reached the House. The fellows standing around the janitor's office had no stripes on theirs--just plain black neckerchiefs. The only variations in the blue and black color scheme were on the sleeve or in the splash of color above the breast pocket...
...shot down an Me-110 trying to get us, and the radio operator had been wounded. We were getting pretty banged up. Then a fighter made a quick pass at us and sent a shell crashing into the cockpit. Our copilot, Steve Bellovay, was hit clean through the breast pocket. He slumped over the instrument panel, but the pilot never wavered a second. He held her steady, straight on toward the target...