Word: chested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...John, first at the rendezvous somewhere southeast of Los Angeles, sits patiently in the captain's chair of his motor home, parked on a promontory overlooking a panorama of backcountry hills green as spring in the afternoon sun. A full silver beard spreads over his chest, almost obscuring the picture of a Thompson submachine gun on his red T shirt. THE LAST GREAT AMERICAN FREEDOM MACHINE, reads the legend. A bird-skinning knife is holstered parallel to his belt. Big John is an original road warrior, a man whose history stretches back to the beginning of time as bikers measure...
...revised and enlarged edition had statements that were made as recently as 1977. "O, Joy of Joys!" I cried, as I clasped my latest possession to my chest, and I eagerly perused the end of the book for the quotations taken from the 1960s and 1970s, those decades of unforgettable utterances...
...most sensitive question is how to portray Jesus Christ. Some tribes show him with a huge head to symbolize great wisdom or a massive chest to convey strength. But should he be depicted as an African? Urban Christians are more open to this than believers in the bush. Commissioned by the Catholic Cathedral in Kananga, Zaire, Enkobo Mpane created his first Bantu Christ from ebony in 1969. Parishioners rejected the work, so it hangs in a nearby convent. "Our parishioners still think of Christ as a Jew and not an African," reports Arley Brown, a U.S. Baptist teaching in Kinshasa...
...strip we see Calvin's father reading quietly, when Calvin runs into the room, deflects an imaginary bullet off his chest near his dad and then runs off again. The strip is done with only four words and with the father's viewpoint in mind, and it succeeds...
From the start, Eastern's pilots unflinchingly backed striking mechanics and flight crews by walking off their jobs, and their action grounded all but a handful of the airline's 250 planes. With a dwindling war chest of $200 million, hemorrhaging at a rate of $4 million a day, Eastern was forced to file for protection under the Chapter 11 provisions of the Federal Bankruptcy Code. Lorenzo used the same tactic 5 1/2 years ago to break the unions and reorganize Continental, but this time, under revised bankruptcy laws, he will find the process more arduous...