Word: chesting
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...furniture, some secondhand, was provided by the I.R.C.: two double beds, three single beds, a table, a chest of drawers and seven chairs for the seven siblings. The walls are bare except for a Buddhist shrine. It is cold. The Trinhs' apartment has been getting little heat during New York City's cold winter...
...looked like a clear case of child abuse. The youngster had bruises on back and chest, apparently the result of a severe beating. Horrified observers reported the case to authorities, who prosecuted the bewildered Vietnamese refugee parents. But the trial ended soon enough when a physician testified that the child was only the "victim" of an old folk remedy: coin rubbing...
...American night. "Mr. Lennon." He started to turn around. There is no knowing whether John Lennon saw, for what would have been the second time that day, the young man in the black raincoat stepping out of the shadows. The first shot hit him that fast, through the chest. There were at least three others...
...Cambridge is neither large nor luxurious. A couch, an easy chair and a small desk provide the room's only furnishings; two Chinese scrolls dominate the otherwise blank beige walls. A radio plays soft classical music. Zhao's private quarters are similarly sparse--a night table, a chest of drawers and a neatly made bed. In the kitchen, where Zhao stands over the stove cooking lunch for his guest, there is little but the essentials. A small table covered with an oil cloth (and a glass bowl holding seven oranges and a package of Beechnut gum) serves for a dining...
...however, was his deep personal concern for the people he worked with: It is said that he never walked away from a situation that needed his attention. A man of extraordinary energy, Halberstam even drove himself to the hospital after a burglar pumped two fatal shots into his chest...