Word: chested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little naive. In January 1952 he skipped across the border to visit relatives in West Germany incognito, was discovered and sent back. Another time, at the height of East zone food shortages, he made a propaganda visit to Bonn and was hit by an overripe tomato square on his chest. Such adventures embarrassed his government. His pretty wife saw the signs, urged him to flee before it was too late. "I have a clear conscience," he told her. "I will stay. There is still justice here." A few weeks later, in the winter of 1952, Minister Hamann was arrested, accused...
...fury. He sent his wife off to get the sheriff, stormed through the house cutting the cords that triggered the cyanide bombs. When he got to the pantry, the furious, forgetful captain yanked open the door. His carefully arranged contraption worked perfectly; the .22 fired a bullet into his chest, just above the heart. This week doctors gave Captain Hord an even chance to recover...
Graham told the American College of Chest Physicians. "More study is needed," protested a spokesman for the cigarette industry. But many lay men and women were quickly convinced. After the statistics hit Page One across the nation last week, common stocks of the big five cigarette manufacturers dropped as much as 4 points, preferred stocks even more, and buyers invaded pipe shops to buy experimental briars and fancy smoking mixtures. In Manhattan, Dunhill's expensive smoking emporium on Fifth Avenue reported that its stock of slim little ladies' pipes, enough to last several months at the old sales...
...come to see his new charges promptly before something happens to them. So far they seem to be thriving, however. Hortense and Peter, though young, are taking an interest in each other. Washingtonians may yet see a baby otter circling round the pool on its mother's furry chest...
...musician knows, it takes a lot of brass to be a tuba player. Generally, tubas range in size from the B-flat tenor (10 Ibs., 151 in. of tubing), which is hugged to the player's chest and sometimes goes pah-pah, to the large, economy-size B-flat bass (29 Ibs., 387 in.), which is often worn somewhat like a life preserver and mostly goes oompah. One thing that tuba players have in common is a fear that audiences are laughing at them. To many nonmusicians, indeed, the tuba appears absurd -there is always some fellow...