Word: chestful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last time I woke up, I tried to move the woman off my chest, and the flies were so bad I could hardly stand them. There were millions of flies...
Only the day before, Beaverbrook had got some imperial yearnings off his own chest. For the U.S. Scripps-Howard papers he wrote a pungent evaluation of Britain's status. "The basic cause of our being in the present condition," he said, ". .. is the [U.S.] loan and the conditions under which it was accepted. It provided easy money. It destroyed our prospect of reconstructing our economy on sound lines. These lines entail the development of our Empire potentialities with speed and vigor...
Keeping its secrets close to its chest, the A.E.G. hardly mentioned the practical possibilities. The fast reactor must be surrounded, like its predecessors, by a thick shield to protect the neighborhood from destructive radiation. This limits its use. But the comparatively small size is an obvious advantage. The new pile, further developed and allowed to run faster and hotter, may be the furnace of tomorrow's atomic power plant...
Newsmen were not allowed to see him at the hospital. But he had previously been seized with an odd impulse to get something off his chest to a Negro editor named Leon Lewis. In June, he had summoned Lewis to his side. The man who had preached race hate with a venom seldom exceeded in U.S. history delivered a reluctant and rambling apology to his dark-skinned visitor...
...young native girl (Jean Simmons) and a splendidly dressed young nobleman (Sabu) come to the convent to learn the ways of God and of Western civilization, but stay to play peekaboo. The local nabob's insolent British handyman (David Farrar) lolls about the nunnery in shorts, displaying enough chest hair to stuff a kneeling cushion...