Word: chested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...retired autoworker becomes the third recipient of the Jarvik-7 ONCE AGAIN THE SOUNDS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC FILLED THE OPERATING ROOM AT HUMANA HOSPITAL AUDUBON IN LOUISVILLE. AND ONCE AGAIN, AS THE OPERATION DREW TO A CLOSE, A STRANGE, PERCUSSIVE ACCOMPANIMENT AROSE FROM THE PATIENT'S CHEST: ch, ch, ch. FOR DR. WILLIAM DEVRIES, THE ONLY SURGEON IN THE WORLD AUTHORIZED TO IMPLANT THE ARTIFICIAL HEART, THESE WERE THE SOUNDS OF SUCCESS, AS REASSURING TO HIM AS A NEWBORN'S FIRST SQUEAL IS TO THE OBSTETRICIAN...
Polio paralyzes its victims by killing off the spinal cord's motor-nerve cells, which control various muscles. In some cases, when muscles in the chest become too weak to function properly, polio victims need mechanical assistance simply to breathe. Though many of the polio victims who survive are left partly paralyzed, they often make dramatic progress. Muscles that had fallen slack begin to work again when healthy nerve cells sprout new connecting fibers and take over the work of cells ravaged by polio...
...help give Actor Eddie Murphy an authentic street-smarts look, producers of the hit film Beverly Hills Cop attired their star in a faded T shirt marked MUMFORD PHYS. ED. DEPT. across the chest. Now the burgundy-lettered garment has become a hit in its own right. Swamped by requests for the shirts from Murphy's fans, Detroit's Samuel C. Mumford High School has turned to a national distributor to handle the demand. As of last week Artex Manufacturing of Overland Park, Kans., had received more than 24,000 orders for the shirt, which sells for around...
...bizarre incident that has drawn nationwide attention, Cleveland's school superintendant, a 1970 Ed School graduate, shot himself in the chest Saturday after leaving an open note saying he was "sickened" by the school system's "petty politics...
...Geena Davis) trying to make it on her own in San Francisco. The show is being touted as 1985's answer to the Mary Tyler Moore Show, a boast that can most charitably be described as optimistic. Davis, a tall brunet with an annoying habit of talking into her chest, has little of Mary's tough-but- vulnerable charm, and the gag lines would have embarrassed the crowd at WJM- TV. (A friend, chiding Sara for taking low-paying cases, wonders if she has something against making money: "Did something happen when you were a kid? Were you attacked...