Word: chested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with rappings, rushings, snatchings, snorings and putting out of lights. Three priests were sent by the bishop to cope with it by exorcism and prayer. One reported that he felt it like an eel twisting around his wrist; another saw the bedclothes of an empty bed heaving where the chest of an occupant would be. "Soon we could hear the heavy breathing, the gurgling in the throat . . . what country people would call 'a hard death.' " The Thing won out in the end. The haunted family eventually went off to the U.S., and "the gallant clergy, who made such...
...both boys and girls, is universally associated with an upset hormone balance (male over female hormones) during puberty. (Eunuchs seldom or never have acne.) There is not a shred of evidence for the common belief that acne is a result of masturbation. For some unknown reason, the face, chest and upper back are especially susceptible. There the tiny sebaceous glands, which are designed to secrete fats to oil the skin, become clogged with an abnormally waxy form of these fats. Blackheads and pimples form over the shutdown pores; there may also be pustules, but infection is believed...
...physician, kindly, pudgy Dr. John Bodkin Adams, had eased the end for many an octogenarian patient, and Mrs. Morrell's timely passing caused scarcely a ripple at the bridge tables. The old lady was cremated. Her son gave Dr. Adams her old Rolls-Royce and a valuable chest of family silver as a token of gratitude for his care, and there, but for some skeptics, the affair might well have rested, marked only by the perfunctory clucking of tongues that serve as the death-bell's tolls in Eastbourne...
...Hall is undoubtedly the best chairman the Republicans have had in a generation: shrewd and eupeptic, confident about his political knowledge. He planned the famous "Salute to Ike" dinners, bringing a fat $4,000,000 into the party's 1956 war chest, then spent half that buying up expensive "prime time" on TV. He never swerved from his conviction that Ike would run again despite heart attack and ileitis operation, thus preventing a unity fracturing scramble for delegate votes. His candidate won by a landslide, but his party failed to capture Congress...
Diagnosis is far more accurate nowadays because much has been learned about the variability of angina symptoms. These were formerly supposed to follow a rigid and classic pattern, with a viselike tight pain in the chest, radiating to the back and down the left arm, accompanied by fear of impending death. With the realization that one or more signs may be missing, doctors are diagnosing angina earlier and oftener...