Word: chested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...District Attorney Myer Kornreich. Kornreich fled from the courtroom and Moon turned toward the bench. Judge Wade jumped to his feet, shielding himself with a chair. "Don't shoot," he begged. "I'm not going to sentence you." Moon fired twice. The judge staggered, clutched his chest and stumbled from the bench. "He shot me, he shot me," he gasped. In front of the empty jury box, he fell to the floor and died...
...United States is four to 13 times as great among people who smoke cigarettes as among people who don't smoke, according to the report. Just under 14,000 people died of lung cancer in the United States in 1950, compared to 15,000 who died of chest tuberculosis...
...York State Crime Commission last spring, the gangster-ridden International Longshoremen's Association has had to endure one stunning haymaker after another. The A.F.L. ordered it to clean up the New York waterfront-which was something like asking a tattooed man to wash that sailing ship off his chest-and took its charter away when it failed (TIME, Oct. 5). The Federation set up a competing longshoremen's union, sent gangs of tough A.F.L. men along the piers to add vigor to its organizing efforts, and began wooing dock workers from their old union...
...Meanwhile, doctors at Riley Hospital concentrated on keeping it alive, using oxygen because the right-hand member has poor circulation. This side also has a harelip and a poorer appetite. Surgery, such as separated the Brodie twins, appears impossible because there is only one set of organs below the chest...
...make ends meet, the retired professors have been forced to take up odd jobs. One runs the local community-chest drive, another works for the Masons, still another serves as a part-time consultant to a big Colorado cattleman. The former head of the chemistry department has worked as a printer in a Fort Collins print shop, but to supplement his monthly $37.14, his wife must baby-sit. Professor G. A. Schmidt, author of six textbooks on agriculture, has worked as an 80/-an-hour land appraiser, and Entomologist Miriam A. Palmer, an expert on aphids, receives only...