Word: chestful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With only three years to go until the next presidential nominating conventions, Columbia University's Dwight D. Eisenhower began deftly sidestepping newsmen's questions as to whether he would be a candidate. Said the general: "I'm not going to go around thumping my chest and telling every newspaperman that I won't be President of the United States. That would be silly...
Furuhashi, who weighs 162 lbs. and stands 5 ft. 7 in., has developed an imposing chest and tremendously muscular legs and arms. Every day, when he is not actually racing, he swims 4,000 to 10,000 meters. Hearing all this, a disgruntled U.S. swimmer said: "You call that amateur swimming? It sounds to me like professionalism...
...State Department auditorium and took a seat at his little mahogany table in front of the assembled newsmen. At his right, as is customary at Acheson's weekly press conferences, sat big, beefy State Department Press Officer Lincoln White. The Secretary wanted to get something off his chest-and what he had to say was almost as surprising to the press corps as a new shift in U.S. foreign policy. He wanted to apologize for having been rude...
...Angeles' Art Center School last week, paintings by 31 U.S. contemporaries were aligned like bottles in a hypochondriac's medicine chest. Alongside them hung slick-paper reproductions showing how each picture had been used as a magazine ad "health message" by the Upjohn Co. The artists had not had health particularly in mind; Upjohn had bought the pictures plus commercial rights, invented their own labels...
...editions for each major suburb. Eventually he had hoped to convert the Independent into a daily. But advertising had come in too slowly, and Publisher Parton had stretched his financial shoestring too far and too fast. In cash and credit, he had spent $600,000. Said Parton: "Our war chest was too small...