Word: chested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...house?"). Before she goes home to bear his child in Kalamazoo, Miss Doubloon strikes a defiant pose on the balcony of her motel, where she has been exiled in disgrace from the boardinghouse. Like Hawthorne's adulterous heroine, the teacher wears a scarlet letter A on her chest, with one modern addition: a plus sign on the right side. A badge of shame becomes, presto, a sexual advertisement; the event heralds "the birth of the 20th century T shirt...
...losses. Said he last week: "I spent some of it, saved some of it and had fun with some of it." Brown promised not to gamble any more during his remaining six months in office. He may also quit smoking: late Saturday night the Governor, who had been suffering chest pains, underwent open-heart surgery to remove blockages...
...white-coated physician leaned over his patient, holding a stethoscope to his chest, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. But one detail did distinguish the examination from those conducted routinely in Israeli hospitals: the paper pinned to the patient's left sleeve identified him as "Dr. Niksa. Hunger Striker. Orthopedics Department." Throughout Israel last week doctors were collapsing in emergency rooms or working with intravenous tubes hanging from their arms. Of the country's 28 hospitals most were handling nothing but emergency cases, and only four were functioning normally. The reason: 2,700 doctors, convinced that they...
...curious show in Managua. Security Chief Lenin Cerna charged that Pfeifel, Greig and Rodriguez had been trying to assemble "a counterrevolutionary network to carry out attacks on our leaders." A Nicaraguan army lieutenant described how Greig and others, by providing invisible ink and a transmitter camouflaged in an ice chest, had tried to turn him into a traitor...
...comic books, on TV in the '50s and in two hugely successful movies (1978 and 1981), Superman has triumphed over nearly every species of injustice. The villains of Metropolis bang their clenched fists against his chest and go away whimpering. Preternatural varmints from the planet Krypton attempt to bend his will to theirs and end up with splitting headaches. But now, perhaps, the Man of Steel has finally met his match: his own rotten self. See Good battle Evil in a schizophrenic clash that makes for the most entertaining and affecting Superman...