Word: chesting
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...South. The poor chap is driven into trying for the presidential nomination by his enigmatic wife ("eyes of the smoky lambent blue that drifts mistily on soft Southern mountains"). Inevitably, the events are recollected by a veteran Washington correspondent, one Richmond P. Morgan ("The Professional," in Wicker's chest-thumping epithet), who got his start covering the Senator's first campaign. Inevitably too, Morgan is now the lover of the Senator's smoky, lambent wife, as well as bureau chief for an unnamed but very important Northern newspaper not easily confused with the Philadelphia Inquirer...
...resonance. But no label could be more deceptive. The regal thoroughbred that carries it is not the tallest horse that ever lived, but he is enormous by any other measure of size or performance. He has a neck like a buffalo, a back as broad as a sofa. His chest is so deep and wide that it takes a custom-made girth to encircle its 75% in. and hold the saddle. And he is still growing...
...reason, I ventured into the yawning Stygian recesses of the inner earth, down inclined passageways whose walls were coated with the detestable slimy niter of the earth's bow els. My whole being choked on the stinking confluence of incense fumes, and a cancerous terror clutched my chest with strangling tendrils. Penultimately we reached a vast vaulted room lit with a gangrenous green glare from an unknown source, while all around pulsed and crashed a monstrous noise not unlike a machine malevolently crunching great living trees to pulp...
...said he laughed and joked, much as he usually did. The next day, however, Mills was found sprawled in the doorway of a barn about a mile from his home in Easton. A 12-gauge shotgun lay on the floor near by. Mills had been shot once in the chest, an apparent suicide...
...banned because of political tension in the city, the demonstrators marched toward police head quarters. They were met by squads of helmeted policemen; rocks, Molotov cocktails and tear gas began to fly, and hand bombs were tossed toward the cops. One bomb struck a young police man in the chest, killing...