Word: breast
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swank, expensive Fortnum & Mason's can be found a few tins of chicken breast, stews and curries, costly bottled fruits...
...ancient records under various forms-Icke, Ike, Icken, Iken, Ihk, Ihken, Itzken, Itken, Ickel, Ickels, Ickes-and that these are all to be found in Heintze-Cascorbi's Die Deutschen Familiennamen, Berlin, 1933. The upper half of the shield is silver with a gold crescent on the breast of the black "demi eagle." The lower half of the shield is red, the trefoils silver. The eagle sticking out its tongue denotes divine power, the crescent shows participation in crusades...
Patty Aspinall, 14-year-old Indianapolis minnow, set a new U. S. record for the 220-yd. breast stroke - 3 min., 7.8 sec., 1.2 sec. better than the mark set last summer by Japanese Fujiko Katsutani of Honolulu. Little Patty used the exhausting butterfly stroke (an overarm stroke as in the crawl, with both arms moving together) for the full 220 yards...
Helene Rains, 16, won the 300-yd. medley (breast stroke, backstroke, crawl) in 4 min., 4.9 sec. Besides swimming, Miss Rains, a Manhattan music student, plays the piano, clarinet, bassoon, oboe, flute and saxophone, studies tap, toe, adagio and acrobatic dancing. In spare moments she paints...
Sometimes Editor Wertenbaker seems to beat his breast a little too fiercely over the past sins of Yankee imperialism. But this is a question of emphasis. To critics who fear that the new doctrine of hemispheric solidarity may supplant the Monroe Doctrine, he gives a flat no. "What was done at the Havana conference . . . did not make the Monroe Doctrine multilateral. The Monroe Doctrine was, and is, a unilateral declaration of U. S. policy against Europe. . . . The new doctrine ... is multilateral and does two things...