Word: chested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jackson "Slim" Muphlin '61 had "EL 4-6326" tattoed on his chest...
Thus last week the U.S. picked up a new frontier state more than twice the size of Texas, a vast treasure chest of iced-in natural resources, a strategic base with frontiers on the Bering Strait, three miles from Asia. The U.S. also picked up in Alaska its first noncontiguous state, and thus added a new dimension-and a new promise-to the Union that had grown from Plymouth Rock and Philadelphia through Appomattox and Omaha Beach to become the bulwark of the free world...
...raise in six years. Eventually their respective spouses return, and after a helpful exchange of advice, the couples retire to patch up their differences in classic fashion. "Honey," pleads the patient buddy just before the final curtain, "please don't put that Vicks Vapo Rub on your chest...
Dutch Treat. The Dutch launched their campaign shortly after the war, when signs appeared that they would lose Indonesia, need outside capital to supplant that colonial treasure chest. Neither the Dutch nor the Belgians have offered the tax holidays or interest-free loans that many industry-hungry nations dangle as bait to U.S. firms. But they do offer other advantages, topped by free convertibility. "There is no trouble here in transferring dividends,'' says the chief of Guaranty Trust Co.'s Belgian branch, Elie Delville, a pioneer in the campaign to boost Belgium to U.S. businessmen...
...Cardiac neurosis" is more widespread than laymen-or many doctors-realize. In the A.M.A. Journal three specialists report on a six-year study of 27 New England patients (including the conductor). All complained of chronic chest pains; all were exhaustively studied and found free of physical heart disease. To most of them, neurotics at heart, this was not really news; they had already had this word from several doctors. Such unsatisfactory verdicts sent them to still other doctors until they got the grave diagnoses they wanted...