Word: chestful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started as a routine day. But after a morning of conferences, the King felt a month-old pain heavy on his chest. He canceled a luncheon date with his brother. As he mounted the steps to his private rooms, coronary thrombosis smote him. He sat a moment on the steps, groped his way to his rooms, rang for an attendant to bring him a glass of water. By the time a doctor arrived, the King of the Hellenes, who had lived a lonely life, had died a lonely death...
George's library would feature a well-thumbed encyclopedia, and there would be tools in the basement. But George would spend most of his spare time attending to his duties as the unsung treasurer of the Community Chest. The Windsor household would revolve around their well-mannered children, and the elder at least would repay her parents' devotion by leading her local Scout troop and becoming captain of the field-hockey team...
Then came Treasurer George F. Addes with his annual report. U.A.W.'s war chest, he reported, had skidded into the red from a $2 million backlog on V-E day. The union was now "barely able to keep its head above water with increased dues from its decreased peacetime membership. And U.A.W. had also cashed in 3,000 in Government bonds...
...Morrisons left early, realizing that the Gardners had a tiring day ahead. Max Gardner was in bed by 10 o'clock. Five hours later, he awoke with a sharp pain in his chest. The hotel's doctor was summoned. At 5 a.m. a heart specialist was called. Examination showed that a blood clot was blocking off the blood from Max Gardner's heart. At 8:25 a.m. the starved heart stopped. Oliver Max Gardner was dead. It would be hard to find as good a man to fill his place...
...Freshman George Allen, 15, saw that he might miss his bus. Sprinting across the icy sidewalk, he fell sprawling on his face, picked himself up, hopped aboard just in time. Then he realized that a metal pencil he had carried in his shirt pocket had stabbed him in the chest, straight toward the heart...