Word: chestful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Eisenhower turning suddenly to Vichy-French Admiral Darlan during the early days of the much-discussed Darlan deal. He jabs Darlan in the chest with a peremptory forefinger, snaps an instruction, and strides away...
...first few steps of When Johnny Comes Marching Home.) He kept plugging, finally recorded Riders and some of his others at his own expense. Then Nature Boy Eden Ahbez (TIME, May 3, 1948) sandaled into the act. He heard Riders and liked it. The song had hair on its chest, and would be hard to croon with mush in the mouth. Ahbez took the music to Burl Ives, who quickly recorded it for Columbia. By the time Bing Crosby got it onto wax for Decca last month, and Vaughn Monroe had done a big, first-class production job for Victor...
People are not expected to cheat in the Wellesley bike race. Perhaps this is because it is quite difficult to chest. In fact just about the only way to circumvent the law is to grab the tailboard of a passing truck; or have a friend over the next hill with a motorcycle...
...lowered into the shaft. A few minutes later, the announcement came at last over the loudspeaker: "Kathy is dead and apparently has been dead since she was last heard speaking." Kathy's body had been found just below the tunneled opening. Her knees were wedged against her chest. Kathy had fallen into a coma, and then died because her cramped body could not get enough oxygen. There was no pain in her face...
...nicknamed "Old Hickory" by his soldiers. Last week, a specialist in reconstructing diagnoses of historical figures reported that he rated the title. By the time it was conferred on him, Old Hickory, 46, had had smallpox, osteomyelitis, malaria, dysentery, rheumatism and half a dozen other assorted diseases; in his chest was a dueler's bullet that was to plague him until he died...