Word: chested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...William James's portrait of his literary brother, while an entire long hall is given over as a showplace for a Spanish dancer, painted by Sargent. The portrait Sargent did of her sits in the Gothic room on the third floor. Stained glass windows flank her, and a carved chest topped by a huge Bible lies before her like an altar. And, with an amazing amount of stupidity, she placed the only Vermeer in New England perpendicular to a window. The light shines on it at the only angle that could make it completely unreadable...
American Dream. Throughout the remainder of the year, the milk money flowed into the Nixon campaign chest, for the most part in legal amounts of less than $5,000. To receive the money, Nixon political associates set up a number of dummy committees, among them Citizens United in Pursuit of the American Dream and Americans United for Honesty in Government. A common device for getting around the $5,000 limit is to donate that amount to each of many different campaign committees...
Across Africa's broad chest, from Senegal to Ethiopia, the worst drought of the century continues to cut a 4,000-mile swath of devastation. After six years of light rainfall, nearly one-third of the 51 million people who live in this band from the Atlantic to the Red Sea are threatened by starvation. Not even a good rainfall this season can end the tragedy, so wasted is the land and so slight the prospect of a bountiful harvest. Worst hit are Ethiopia and the six nations of the arid Sahel (Mali, Mauritania, Senegal, Upper Volta, Niger...
Variety, which is the spice of life, is also the spice of this thin treasure chest. There are old southern ballads, drinking songs and nursery rhymes. To flip through the pages is to feel like a child in a candy store on a lazy spring afternoon...
...said the robot. "You are doing Segment 10. Try to follow my directions carefully. If a classmate drops a pin on the floor, what would you pick it up with? Answer A: a screwdriver. Answer B: pliers. Answer C: a wrench. " Lisa punched button B on Leachim's chest. "You are correct," said the robot. "Pliers will help you lift and squeeze things." "He's very polite," says Lisa. "He says 'thank you' and 'please...