Word: chested
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wanted to yank the kid off that box and mess with his image -- take him to the dark side." So the kid goes off to war and sees a slaughtered Vietnamese family. In the chaos of a skirmish, he kills one of his own men. Paralyzed from the chest down, he finds his sex life over before it begins. In horrifying rants, he abuses his parents, his country and himself. This Ron is not a nice person or even, in his hippie garb, a nice-looking one. Moviegoers who expect to find the best of America in Cruise's face...
...there. May recalls reading an edited story to an exhausted ^ correspondent in Algiers late one night to check its accuracy. After a while he heard only a faint thump-thump on the line. He realized that the correspondent had fallen asleep, and the receiver was resting on her chest...
Krischer is the worst offender--he makes Larry a flat, hackneyed homosexual. He invariably delivers his lines looking vacuously into space, with his hand pressed to his chest. This becomes so habitual a gesture we begin to wonder if his body parts have somehow been fused together...
...youngster tells teacher Donald Miller, "Melvin has a toy." Since toys are not allowed in the lunchroom, the teacher confronts five-year-old Melvin and demands that he hand it over. Miller suddenly faces not a toy but a "Saturday-night special" pointed at his chest. The gun turns out to be loaded, cocked and ready for action...
...miniaturization of technology, having made extraordinary progress in the 40 years since the invention of the transistor, is about to make another shrinking leap. Adapting the chipmaking equipment used to squeeze millions of electrical circuits onto slivers of silicon, researchers are creating a lilliputian tool chest of tiny moving parts: valves, gears, springs, levers, lenses and ball bearings. One team at the University of California, Berkeley, has already built a silicon motor not much wider than an eyelash that can rotate 500 times a minute...