Word: chests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brown, 20, of Greenstown, Ind., who had joined the 45th just two days before the division left Japan for Korea. When the Chinese attacked, he scrambled for a low dike. He was up and drawing a bead on enemy grenade throwers when a burp gun got him across the chest. His comrades saw him slumped against the dike with his head showing, then silhouetted in the brief red glare of a grenade. When they reached him, he was dead...
...said of him that he has limitless ambition, plenty of ability and no respect for his fellow men. With those who do not cross him, he can be pleasant and even jovial. At 51, he is a hairy, muscular man's man, with the swarthy brow and barrel chest of a smaller Max Schmeling. He revels in the authority he has won back...
...keep away from him. With Jean married at last and with nothing to look forward to but chores, Howard does the natural thing: he commits suicide with his father's shotgun. When old Thede finds him, he lets Howard have another shell in the chest for good luck. Wife Rosa walks out on Thede, and when last seen, he is holed up alone in his kitchen in dead of winter, lighting a lamp for the window to show the world that the Clearwater Emersons are still kicking...
...Kudos. That was another medal for Whitney Straight's already heavily decorated chest. Straight, who was born in New York,*raised in England, and became a British citizen in 1936, was an R.A.F. pilot during World War II. He shot down at least three planes, won both the Military Cross for valor and the Distinguished Flying Cross, toward war's end helped run Britain's Transport Group as an air commodore. When he took on the BOAC job five years ago, even his friends thought he was showing bravery far beyond the call of duty. BOAC...
...sophomore Monk Aiello scored on a freak shot which bounced off a defense man's chest and into the goal at 13:43, to tie the count again and set up Yost's winner...