Word: chest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...their men were killed in the endless fighting that has cursedhusband in two months -- "He has another wife," she explains -- and two younger children have died of hunger. Her daughter, naked except for a string of turquoise beads, coughs at her side. Dhaqane snatches the girl to her bony chest. "I will stay here," she says, "until the food runs...
...several neighbors in a couple of small bathrooms. For two hours Bruce, his foot braced on the sink, pressed his 200-lb. frame against the door to keep the hurricane from ripping it open. They heard glass shatter and stick in the walls. Water poured in around the medicine chest, and the tub rattled itself away from the wall. Roof tiles flew under the door. "I've never been so scared in my life," recalls Brocato. "I hope I die if I'm ever that afraid again. We all dirtied our pants...
...arrested their first transplanted L.A. gang members in 1989. Now Sedgwick County, which includes Wichita, is riddled with 68 different gang sets boasting 1,400 members. Last August, Regnaldo Cruz, 15, was taken to a park, forced to his knees and fatally shot in the head and chest with a .410-gauge shotgun. Though the suspect remains at large, police believe Cruz was executed for trying to get out of a gang called the Vato Loco Boyz. Says Kent Bauman, an officer with the city's gang-intelligence unit: "People who aren't familiar with gangs think that these kids...
...paintings. Victor Covey, then the gallery's senior conservator, designed an ingenious lightweight metal container on wheels that one person could roll through the gallery and, within minutes, gather up the 18 or 19 most prized paintings, then slip them into designated slots. Inside the container was a tool chest with devices for removing the paintings from the walls swiftly, as well as flashlights and a waterproof signboard showing the location of each picture. When the lid was closed, the container would be sealed with gaskets. Bags of chemicals inside would stabilize the humidity, which was to be constantly monitored...
...swamps that have long deterred those curious about the Ndoki. We pick our way through the quicksand-like muck by feeling with our toes and walking sticks for a series of thin logs Japanese researchers have previously laid down. I slip once and fall up to my chest in mud before grabbing a root. Sobered by the slip, I ask Fay how deep the mud is. "Who knows?" he says, shrugging...