Word: chested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to Sandinista documents, Miskito leaders have been involved with anti-Sandinista exiles in at least 26 cross-border raids against Nicaraguan forces since November. During one of the antigovernment actions, insurgents are claimed to have driven a stake into the chest of a wounded soldier, disemboweled him and slit his throat. That grisly incident may be pure propaganda. But there is little doubt that the offensive it was intended to justify-an undeclared war on the mostly peaceful, independent Indians who only recently were among the Sandinistas' friends-marks a new, brutal and tragic phase in Nicaragua...
...middle-distance specialists matched each other stride for stride to the finish line, but Rowe thrust out his chest for the crucial hundredth of a second...
...less than five minutes later, Harvard's Tony Visone broke into the N.U. zone and centered the puck from the circle to Marshall's right. The Husky netminder let the puck bounce off his chest and over his shoulder, where Greg Britz was waiting in the crease to top it in for a 4-3 Harvard lead...
Princeton's Zabel projected that robust look of salubriousness. Thick legs, big chest, curly hair, you picture him quaffing a glass of milk and striding about Princeton's hillocked campus, feet sandal-shorn and nostrils flaring to gulp in the spring air. His physical vigorousness translates into an intensely competitive spirit, and the first three and a half games of the two New Yorkers' match filled itself with innumerable let calls and questionings...
...below the waist run a relatively low risk of contracting diabetes, a frequently serious disease that disrupts the normal metabolism of sugar into energy and afflicts one out of 20 Americans. Conversely, Kissebah warns, women with what he calls "upper-body obesity" (excess fat deposited mainly around the waist, chest, neck and arms) are high-risk candidates for the disorder, which may cause blurred vision, persistent drowsiness, frequent urination, cramps in legs, feet and fingers, and can eventually lead to coma and even death. "To put it simply," says Kissebah, "the bigger the waist, compared with the hips and thighs...