Word: breast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High among the puffy white clouds over Kiel both the pilot and co-pilot of the B-17 Worry Wart were knocked out. Below-zero cold froze the pilot's hands and feet. The co-pilot was dead, a 20-mm. shell through his breast. Ugly flak blossoms unfolded on all sides. In & out among the clouds darted droves of enemy fighters. Worry Wart's chances of getting back to England were next to zero...
...when the Baron rose from his desk to take the girl in his arms her eyes were menacing. Suddenly she clawed a sharp knife from her clothes, struck it deep into the Baron's breast. He crumpled, begging for mercy, but the girl did not heed. Calmly she washed her hands, tidied her hair, plucked the pass from the Baron's stiffening fingers, swept offstage...
Thomas Wolfe stood six feet, seven inches tall and was broad in proportion. As a child, says Mrs. Wolfe, Tom was breast-fed "until he was three and a half years old," slept with his mother "until he was a great big boy." Only when Tom got "what old-fashioned people called lice," did his mother consent to cut his "beautiful curls." She still clung to him, however, and kept him in short pants until two years before he went to the University of North Carolina...
...breast of studious, thin-lipped Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz the Fuhrer pinned a ribbon last week "in recognition of his singular merits in the conduct of the U-boat war." The singular Doenitz had shifted his attack north and west. U-boats, out of range of land-based planes, were hunting again in the mid-Atlantic, sleeplessly athwart the lines to Britain, North Africa and Russia...
...Ills. . . . Fencing, says Nadi, should be "a cardinal part" of everybody's education. He considers boxing, by contrast, a vulgar, stupid sport. He prescribes fencing for developing character, nervous stamina and intelligence, for reducing, for learning to walk properly, for "strengthening and toning the breast muscles" (quips Nadi: "Show me the girl not interested in these details...