Word: chesting
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...wrinkles, they are not particularly noticeable. For a man of 71, he is in remarkable physical condition. The most prominent change since Inauguration Day is not the scar left by a would-be assassin's bullet in March 1981 but the 1½ in. of new muscle added to his chest by daily workouts with a weight machine in the White House family quarters. Says Presidential Assistant Richard Darman: "He is fantastically resilient...
Shortly after he awoke last Thursday morning in Salt Lake City, Barney Clark recognized the familiar sight and voice of his wife Una Loy, who was near by. There was also an unfamiliar noise: a soft, rhythmical clicking coming from his chest. And he realized, to his surprise, that he was still alive...
...edged out Herberich to take the 400 Herberich had led the race from the very start, followed by Harvard freshman Chris Alderidge, and Robinson But, when they rounded the last bend. Robinson put on a burst of speed and overtook Alderidge and caught up to Herberich, thrusting out his chest to break the ribbon first...
...feeling hit me as soon as I turned the corner onto St. Peter Street, a pounding in the chest that was as familiar as the humid embrace of a New Orleans summer night. It grew stronger as I crossed Royal Street and saw the two battered music cases hanging over a wrought-iron gate. Brass letters on them spelled out the words PRESERVATION HALL. I heard a bass drum, a sprinkle of piano notes and the growl of a trumpet driving home a blues chorus...
...face of both plodder and plotter, being something of each; a scholar's face and a doorman's, the kind one does not notice until it is in charge of things. In the West one saw him mostly in photographs: clapping solemnly at parades, his chest tiered with medals, his body like a metalwork; or embracing a world leader...