Word: breast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carrera-Sheraton Hotel, which overlooks the Presidential Palace, is a bulky brown 17-story building with what at least one travel brochure optimistically describes as "tastefully decorated rooms." At the height of the fighting on Tuesday, Carrera Manager Luis Miguel ("Mike") Gallegos−upon whose thin breast every one of last week's guests would like to hang a medal−evacuated his 270 charges and 200 employees to the cavernous second basement. It took on the atmosphere of a London tube stop during the blitz, but with a notably international flavor. A French journalist challenged all comers...
Nope, it wasn't drugs or even payoffs that Pitcher Gaylord Perry of the Cleveland Indians was confessing. To the surprise of no American League batter, last year's Cy Young Award winner was making a clean breast of the spitball he threw "for the first, but hardly the last time" in 1964. In his autobiography, Me and the Spitter, to be published next year, Perry said that first spitball led him through "the mudball, the emery ball, the K-Y ball, the Vaselineball and the sweatball, to name a few. During the next eight years, I tried...
...machines whir under the usually watchful eyes of long-haired young men who are paid $66.25 a week and, as one of them puts it, "all the ale we can sink." All men employees wear Y.K.K.'s jackets, which have the company initials proudly displayed on the breast pocket and no fewer than six zippers on the front, the pockets and the cuffs...
Seventh Seal. Another Bergman ripe with stock Bergmanesque soul soundings, brow beatings and breast poundings -- God, death, life and love -- as he wonders whether the world has meaning. Harvard Square...
...defendants were well defended." Ehrlichman will express suspicions, similar to those of Mitchell and Dean, that Colson had a role in pushing the Watergate wiretapping plans. But Ehrlichman will claim that he personally took no part in cover-up activities and kept urging that anyone involved "make a clean breast of it." He was told that Mitchell "effectively threw blocks" at any such disclosure. Ehrlichman will also corroborate Dean's testimony that Mitchell had reported that "blackmail" demands of Hunt had "been taken care...