Word: chested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Southeast Asia by Communism. They had cowed the once great French nation into a yearning for dishonorable surrender; they had spurned the outstretched hand of once mighty Britain; they had ordered the U.S. to get out of Asia and the Pacific. At Geneva they now poke rudely at the chest of the West and hope to find there the faint heart of a new Munich. They now demand a voice in the affairs of the Europe that, a generation ago, was sure that it ordered the affairs of China as surely as it ordered about its ricksha boys...
...operating table, his father was on another parallel to it. A surgeon tapped the main artery in the father's thigh, led the freshly oxygenated blood to a pump which boosted it on its way to a tube set into an artery in Gregory's chest. After it had coursed through his system, the blood flowed out from one of the great veins near the heart through more tubes and pumps into a vein in the father's thigh. Its passage through his heart and lungs completed the circuit...
...average Briton, a U.S. soldier off duty is often a pretty overwhelming sight. Lounging on a street corner in blue jeans and a garishly patterned leather windbreaker, the hairs on his chest peeping slyly out of the deep cleavage of an open-necked sport shirt, the out-of-uniform G.I. is an equally distressing sight to more soldierly U.S. noncoms...
...natural lefthander, had to learn to do everything all over again with his right. An enthusiastic runner, he was told he might never run again. Halberg did not believe the doctors. As soon as he was up and about, he began to run, holding his left arm against his chest, using his right in the traditional pumping movement necessary for balanced momentum...
When Bobo Olson was a 15-year-old in Hawaii he was so keen to be a professional fighter that he had his arms tattooed and shaved his chest every day to make the hair grow faster-all so he would look old enough to get a fighter's license. Last week Middleweight Champion Olson, a balding 25-year-old, was candidly bored by the whole business: "I'm tired of fighting. I don't like it anymore. I'm doing it for the money alone-until I get enough to go into some kind...