Word: chestful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnny West pushed the truck driver into the bushes, shot him in the head and chest, climbed behind the truck's wheel. Daniels got into one of the new canvas-draped cars in the rear. They rolled on unchallenged through one of Ohio's greatest man hunts...
...only antivenom serum there was from North American snakes, and useless for cobra bites. Her throat muscles had begun to contract ominously. Mrs. Wiley, now almost unconscious, shook her head hopelessly. She was put into an iron lung, but it was too late; the paralysis was creeping through her chest. When it reached her heart muscles, an hour and forty minutes after she had been bitten, Grace Wiley died...
Riefenstahl's Olympische Spiele, for all its fake slants and supermanic chest-beating, was by far the best and most exhaustive sports record ever put on film. She used 40 to 60 cameras with a fine, eye for crisis and sidelight, pageantry and crowd, and assembled them with one of the world's most striking talents for cutting. To handle Britain's film, Rank has hired bouncing, white-haired little Castleton Knight, 54, head of Gaumont British News, who did the Technicolor films of the royal wedding and the royal wedding presents...
Vegetarians & Geniuses. In the Boston of the 1840s there could be found every variety of reformer, revolutionist and enthusiast: God-intoxicated Transcendentalists, fire-eating and angular Abolitionists, chest-heaving Fourierists, nutty nudists, and somber lady reformers whose figures Henry James was later aspishly to describe as having "no more outline than a bundle of hay." But in the midst of all this intellectual mooning there was great and solid achievement; this was the New England of Emerson and Hawthorne, of Thoreau, Lowell and Longfellow-the golden age of American letters...
...local teachers' association, vice president of the West Virginia N.E.A., an active member of the American Association of University Women and of Delta Kappa Gamma, an education society. She teaches Sunday-school classes and is regularly called upon to help in Clarksburg's Red Cross and Community Chest drives...