Word: chest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complicated way in which Americans have assessed the meaning of victory has led to some confusion about their feelings. The outpouring of relief that erupted when the fighting ended, for example, was first mistaken for euphoria and is now at times wrongly taken for chest-pounding superpatriotism. In fact, there were many reasons for the mood of celebration, and most of them are laudable...
While federal scientists raced to analyze their samples last week, Americans flooded the White House switchboard with a few theories of their own about whatdidit -- everything from chemicals in the carpets to infectious pets. One citizen counseled the President to slather lemon juice over his throat and chest to soothe his hyperactive thyroid. Others admonished him to eat his hated broccoli since it contains small amounts of a naturally occurring substance that restrains the organ...
...this time, the band accompanied Ramos, and he didn't hit a single note. "By the time I got to the bombs bursting in air, my lungs were bursting in my chest," the Kirkland House senior recalls...
RUSHIN' RUSSIAN. Test your vocabulary by filling in the correct Russian words in each story. For every set of this U.S. pencil-and-paper game sold this spring, the manufacturer will put one ruble into Boris Yeltsin's campaign chest...
...often she shakes uncontrollably for a few moments -- a legacy of the nerve-system damage that occurred when she suffered a shortfall of blood and oxygen just before birth. Between these seizures, she is unusually quiet and lethargic, lying on her side with one arm draped across her chest and the other bent to touch her face, sleeping day and night in the comfort of her cushioned warming table. At best, it will be three or four months before she is well enough to leave the hospital, and even then she may continue to shake from time to time...