Word: chesting
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Only tiny chest scars remain from his gunshot wound. The 11 Ibs. he lost while recuperating from the assassination attempt have been regained, and then some. "No Mexican lunch today," he declared with resignation recently, surveying the White House menu. "I gained five pounds over Christmas...
...glow against a long-sleeved off-white blouse so elegant as to seem part of a royal costume. Hilda at six is no beauty yet, but she has possibilities, and ambition. Her loud red knee socks exactly match her huge square purse. She wears the purse on her chest, hanging from her neck. Her eyes sparkle at everything that is said, but she says nothing herself, content to listen to Um Khalil, Aida and the strange foreign man. Mrs. Khalil asks her to sing a song. Hilda responds with I Am a Palestinian Child, words and music by a member...
...Seng, now 10, sits at the other side of a kitchen table at the end of a long dirt-floor hut in Khao I Dang. He is visible down to the middle of his chest. The face is bright brown; the head held in balance by a pair of ears a bit too large for the rest-the effect being scholarly, not comical. Kim Seng has a special interest in France these days because he has recently learned that his older brother is there. He studies diligently, hoping to join his brother. He believes that knowledge makes people virtuous...
...first mistake was not saying no to his friend with the $1,000. At the White House, you say no to a Japanese with an envelope of cash the same way you say no to an American with an envelope of cash-lips pursed, arms firmly folded across the chest. But that mistake was rather minor and excusable...
Mike Reagan, aged 19, was carrying a toy life-sized M-16 weapon which police officials said yesterday he pointed at Sgt. Stephan King, a public safety officer, after King saw the weapon and said "freeze, police." Two bullets struck Reagan in the leg and upper chest and he was originally in guarded condition in the intensive care unit at Los Altos Hospital in Long beach but was reported in stable condition yesterday...