Word: chested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...going to miss." Then the three-year-old grasped the gun in both hands and pointed it at another child on the street, Jeffery Krauch, 6. The three-year-old's brother cocked the pistol. The three-year-old fired it into Jeffery's chest. Jeffery stood for an instant, then fell, blood pouring from his wound. He was almost immediately dead...
...offering them." Typically, Reagan sounded affable as he made that blunt accusation. He sat in the long living room of his Pacific Palisades house, jaunty in his Chinese-red slacks and matching sandals. The deep creases in his face and neck gave way to a tanned chest, under his loosened sports shirt, that was as smooth as a young lifeguard's. As Reagan saw it, Gerald Ford's campaign staff has not been above dangling a highway here, a hospital there, a loan from the Small Business Administration. He went on: "I never ask these delegates directly...
...spleen, then ripped through the diaphragm, punctured the left ventricle-the heart's major pumping chamber-and entered the aorta, the main artery of the body. Like a log in a swift stream, it was carried by the blood round the aorta's bend, down the chest into the left iliac, a major blood vessel feeding the leg, where it finally came to rest. Had the bullet taken a different course-blocking an artery to the head, say-Rojas would have died immediately...
...temple could wait. Deftly cutting away, Surgeon Mulji Pauwaa removed the ruptured spleen. Then, after locating the bullet-which somehow had twisted around-he removed it, thereby restoring the leg's blood supply. Meanwhile, other members of the team sopped up the blood that had accumulated in the chest cavity, easing pressure on the lungs. Finally, Surgeon Abul Aguam closed the hole in Rojas's heart...
...other things, it suggested that the periodic exam may be just one more instance of "a tendency of the health professions to oversell prevention ... and to overvalue the benefit of their care to patients." Acting on the advice of medical consultants, the Chicago board of education is scrapping annual chest X rays for all employees. Even leaders of the American Medical Association have joined the doubters. A.M.A. President-elect Dr. John Budd, a Cleveland general practitioner who boasts that he has not had a routine physical since he joined the Army in World War II, regularly asks patients who demand...