Word: chest
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Holmquist said FBI agents found a chest full of labels and seals which had apparently been removed from the books...
...district. Unable to campaign on different platforms, the candidates stump on their ability to bring special benefits like new roads and factories to their towns. Nisei have a distinct advantage because they inherit the so-called three bans: jiban (constituency), kanban (name or recognition) and kaban (suitcase or campaign chest); they don't have to spend their early careers building these...
...Adams' life, Clive's voice became more fluid, and also more shaky. He finished with Adams hope that the world might become a place where sensitive souls might look out without horror. His voice now shaky to the point of collapse, Clive pulled his notes to his chest and, eyes shut, rushed out of the room. We, inside the room, were still...
...Bush Administration soon adopted a more seemly tone -- restrained, conciliatory, even a tad remorseful about the earlier chest pounding. Legal experts warned that official American name calling might jeopardize the prosecution's case against Manuel Noriega. But there was another reason for George Bush's eagerness to put away the big stick and start talking softly again. He believes in that AT&T advertising slogan, "Reach out and touch someone" -- not with the 82nd Airborne but with a telephone call. Starting in the early hours of Operation Just Cause, he talked to more than a dozen foreign leaders, many...
...even deeper real-life influence on Beckett's work, scholars have suggested, came in 1938. As Beckett walked along a Paris street, a panhandler stabbed him in the chest, perforating a lung and narrowly missing his heart. When Beckett later asked why the attack happened, the assailant replied, "I don't know, sir." That glimpse of the random perils of existence may have confirmed Beckett's dark vision but did not initiate it. His novel Murphy, published the same year, depicts a destitute Irishman, living in London, who daydreams away his days in a rocking chair until a gas plant...