Word: chest
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...frequently under fire, Bosnian Deputy Prime Minister Hakija Turajlic chose to travel by U.N. convoy. The precaution was of no avail. En route back to town, the convoy was halted by 40 Serb irregular troops. After 90 minutes, his captors shot Turajlic, a Muslim, seven times in the chest and head through the open door of the U.N. armored car, in the presence of five French peacekeepers. He died at U.N. headquarters, the first high-level political figure to be assassinated in the former Yugoslavia's civil...
...coloratura refers to her extravagant ease with ornamentation; the mezzo gives her a lush tone, darker than a soprano's, and keeps her from ever -- perish the thought -- squeaking. "I have a natural facility for the coloratura," she says. "It was born in here," she adds, pointing to her chest...
...spreading through the crowd that signaled the ghastly instant. On the Astroturf at Giants stadium, Jets defensive lineman Dennis Byrd lay motionless, unable to move his hands or legs. With all the power of his 266 lbs. of hurtling flesh, Byrd had unintentionally rammed his helmeted head into the chest of his 275-lb. teammate Scott Mersereau. The impact crumpled a vertebra in Byrd's neck, crushing part of the underlying spinal cord as well as plunging dagger-like slivers of bone into the soft, vital nerve tissue...
Byrd faces the possibility of permanent paralysis from the chest down. But thanks to recent developments in treating spine injuries, he has a far better chance of retaining some control of his body than he would have if the accident had occurred two or three years ago. Within hours of his injury, the football player received two new treatments -- one of them not yet approved in the U.S. -- that could help limit the damage. Although the drugs cannot cure paralysis, they may conserve enough nerve function to make the difference between confinement to a wheelchair and being able to walk...
House Committee Co-Chair Daniel C. DiCicco '94, who dressed in stockings, with red hearts on his chest and cheeks, described the event as "a kind of Drag Night...