Word: chest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case, would a man who had ascended to such high rank require these small, phony proclamations of martial virtue to be pinned above his chest hair? Because he started out so low in rank? Why wear tokens asserting that years ago he was somewhere--in combat in Vietnam--where it could so easily be proved that...
...name of a widow whose poor slob of a husband smoked himself to death. The tobacco cartel has won every such suit up to this one, but now the odds are beginning to tip. This is why the novel's companies have set up an eight-figure war chest with a private cia of thugs and slinkers to administer...
...often the case in medicine, sildenafil's effect on impotence was discovered quite by accident. Researchers at Pfizer's laboratories in Sandwich, England, were testing the drug, known to help open up blood vessels, for the treatment of chest pains. Study participants said it didn't do anything for their heart muscle but did seem to add extra zip to their sex life. Pfizer researchers quickly undertook a crash course in something they had never addressed scientifically: the process by which certain enzymes in the body help trigger or turn off an erection. As they plowed through the existing research...
...Vietnam POW John McCain came to the admiral's defense and said Boorda could have made an honest mistake. But others in the military suggested that such an error was inconceivable, particularly for a man who had run a naval personnel office for years. Boorda shot himself in the chest Thursday soon after learning that a Newsweek reporter would be questioning him about two "V's" he wore with Vietnam War campaign medals. "The V is more prestigious than the medal itself because it means the decoration was won under fire," says Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Generally the citation will...
...Vietnam POW John McCain came to the admiral's defense and said Boorda could have made an honest mistake. But others in the military suggested that such an error was inconceivable, particularly for a man who had run a naval personnel office for years. Boorda shot himself in the chest Thursday soon after learning that a Newsweek reporter would be questioning him about two "V's" he wore with Vietnam War campaign medals. "The V is more prestigious than the medal itself because it means the decoration was won under fire," says Pentagon correspondent Mark Thompson. "Generally the citation will...