Word: chest
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Police believe Prince was killed during a robbery attempt. He was pronounced dead at Yale-New Haven Hospital of a gunshot wound to the chest, police said...
...croaked, after a tenor had sung it. During a lavish encomium to the Supremes he forgot the trio's name and concluded lamely: "Here are the girls." Looking somewhat like a Great Stone Face transplanted from Easter Island to Broadway, he would rock back and forth onstage, hands across chest or clutching his kidneys, while in baleful voice he introduced a succession of comedians, jugglers, rock bands and animal acts...
Perhaps the most remarkable devices are the computerized vans specially designed for disabled drivers. One owner is Pulitzer-prizewinning columnist Charles Krauthammer, who was paralyzed from the chest down in a diving accident 19 years ago. After logging 85,000 miles in one of these vans, Krauthammer just bought a customized $53,000 Dodge Caravan designed by Les Schofield of San Antonio's International Mobility Products. Krauthammer calls Schofield the "Chuck Yeager of rehab technology...
There is no disputing that the allies' high-tech weapons chest is loaded with razzle-dazzle. But just what were those fancy guidance systems locking onto and those clever bombs blowing to smithereens? In some cases, it seems, nothing more than a cardboard shell gussied up to look like an Iraqi Scud launcher...
...next morning's attempts to climb down the ridge were impeded by waist to chest-level snow and ice. Those efforts were further blocked by thin ice that often gave way, soaking the hikers' feet and slowing their progress...