Word: chested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weight, 180 lbs.; waist, 33 in., chest 43 in. In his sinewy shoulders he still had the power to smash out 300-yard drives; his huge hands still contained the nuances that make chip shots fall where he chooses. He has acquired an ounce of caution-but only an ounce-that may cut a little drama from his game and save him a few Scoreboard points...
Thus began the first press conference held by Dwight Eisenhower's chief economic adviser since he took office 15 months ago. By the time it ended an hour later, Dr. Burns had ranged all over the U.S. economy, thumping its back, checking its pulse, reflexes and chest expansion. Burns found the patient doing very nicely. Said he: "There is definite room for hope that cessation of the economic decline will very soon be followed by a recovery in output and employment...
...difficult phrase in one breath. "I know," he had said earlier, "there is not a soprano today who does it. But you do it." He also insisted on his own interpretation of anguish in the phrase O patria mia, o patria mia. He sang it through himself, beating his chest. Nelli tried it. No, no, said the maestro, and launched into the phrase again, leaning toward her, hugging his own shoulders, swaying in sorrow. When finally the recording began, Nelli's voice rang through the hall with all the tone and feeling that Toscanini cajoled from her. When...
...General. Seven rows of ribbons bedecked the broad chest of Major General Cornelius E. Ryan, commanding general of Fort Dix, a veteran of both World Wars...
...during an argument, the bullet lodged in a heart cavity. As a surgeon at Seattle's Swedish Hospital was removing it, the bullet slipped from his forceps and traveled down a large vein, against the blood flow, into the abdomen. So the surgeons sewed up the heart and chest, and within 20 minutes, opened the abdomen. This time they got the bullet. Sturdevant was making a good recovery last week from the shooting and both operations...