Word: chested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Midway in a politics-spiked press conference last week, President Eisenhower caught a question that he must often have asked himself:. "What do you think are the real issues that are going to settle this election?" The President paused to gather thought, crossed his arms over his chest, then spelled out the fundamental issue: Eisenhower Republicanism...
...Pressman, she crowed for quotation: "They're not hiding too much of me. Just enough so people can hear the dialogue." However, Jayne reserved her most intimate confidence-about her current flame, protein-packed Mickey ("Mr. Universe") Har-gitay-for Columnist Sidney Skolsky: "Mickey has a 52-inch chest expansion and I measure over 40 inches-and we both have short arms. All this makes dancing difficult...
...heroic repair measures are often reported, but Drs. K. William Edmark and Henry N. Harkins of the University of Washington outlined something better-a way to anticipate and thus prevent the stoppage before it happens. They use a cardio-tachometer, with two electrodes taped to the patient's chest. A heart about to stop, they find, gives a full 30 seconds' warning by a drastic slowdown. The same electrodes can be used to give the faltering heart an electrical boost so that it promptly picks up again...
...only cough medicine compounded of its 14 medically approved ingredients, works through the upper chest and bronchial tubes to ease that tight feeling, help break up phlegm and wheezy congestion...
...reality of the great Dumas' life was so fantastic that Dumas' friends and enemies caught its contagion and piled reams of further fantasy upon it. Dumas' chest really was covered with medals (of what orders, he never cared), so up sprang the legend that if Dumas were spun round, further rows were revealed dangling from his back. He wrote with such rapidity that people refused to believe that he wrote at all-Dumas, they said, was just the pen name of a five-man syndicate. Dumas (who loved to out-legend his own legends) denied this...