Word: chestful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proposed loan were "most disappointing,' opposed the loan because he believed it would not completely solve Britain's problem and that it would establish a precedent of granting foreign loans which the U.S. could not continue. "We cannot make England well by rubbing a little salve on her chest," he declared. "What she needs is a major operation...
There was still fear, despair and violent death in the land. At Wilmington, Mass., a 21-year-old ex-soldier killed himself by piping exhaust fumes into an automobile, saw fit to record his last sensations. "Joints feel funny," he scribbled. "Chest filling up fast . . . going...
...haute couture, the barrelly Briton had left only his neck-size (17½) and inside sleeve-length (20 from armpit to cuff). Cabled the shirtmaker: "Please send one old shirt for use as a model." He could scarcely do a proper job, he explained, without the outside sleeve-length, chest and waist measurements...
...with ribbons on his chest had come back from Japan to Seattle. He brought smallpox with him. Result: the city's worst epidemic of the "Red Death" in years...
University of California Medical School doctors this week claimed they had the answer: a mixture of curare and nitrous oxide, potent enough to put the patient under, paralyze his respiratory muscles. In 68 chest operations in which the new anesthetic had been used, surgeons had wielded the stuttering electric knife without an internal explosion...