Word: chested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only slightly overweight and considered himself reasonably fit. He ate and drank moderately, exercised often and did not smoke. But on a warm day last May, after only five minutes of racquetball, he suddenly became extremely short of breath. A burning sensation swept through his chest. Too exhausted to continue, he crouched on the ground trying to recover. Eight weeks later he was wheeled into an operating room for a coronary bypass...
...always, Nolen is refreshingly candid. He admits that he foolishly refused to take his first chest pains "seriously-though he had a history of high blood pressure, and his father died at 58 of heart disease. After an electrocardiogram finally confirmed that the pain was angina-a condition caused by an inadequate flow of blood to the heart muscles-an immediate concern, he allows, was whether he would be able to keep up an active sex life...
...Awakening in the recovery room four hours later, he found himself in a tangle of tubes and wires. Almost every bodily function was being monitored or controlled. To ensure adequate oxygen for his heart, he was hooked to a respirator. If he tried to move, he felt a sharp chest pain (from the break that was made in his breastbone to get at his heart). Later, as he listened to the beep-beeps of heart monitors echoing through the corridor, he nervously wondered whether any change in their steady rhythm was coming from his machine...
Indian, to help them salvage the booty and thwart the Mob. But while they are feverishly scooping up drug ampules, they discover greater treasure: a chest of priceless jewelry once intended for the mistress of King Philip V of Spain...
...noticed I was fully dressed, including my shoes, and I also noticed those two letters on my chest. My roommate is this solid Catholic kid from Walpole, always goes to breakfast, always goes to class, and--since the beginning of my degeneration in February--always brings in the mail. He stands at my door, so as to avoid having to walk on my floor (which is always strewn with orange peels and broken glass and old vanilla wafer boxes) and throws my mail at my chest. He's not always good at it, either, which is why we've lost...