Word: chests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flares. Goering's character, Frischauer shows, was "far from deep. It was, rather, a broad one-as expansive and glittering with showy decorations as the chest and paunch that went with it. Goering was a supremely energetic man, endowed with an extraordinary memory for facts & figures and an acute, intuitive sense of popular emotions. But these faculties, like every other aspect of his character, were flares that burnt furiously and impressively for short periods and then were suddenly succeeded by bursts of playfulness, pseudo mysticism, or acute depression...
...intestine was taken out and joined to the stomach; the free end of the intestine was led up toward the throat. In the second phase, a few days later, the free end was to be joined to the stub of esophagus that Robert was born with. But when a chest incision was made, the free end could not be found. Robert continued with his rubber tube...
...weeks ago, Robert felt a tightening in his chest whenever he took water through his tube. The doctors at Columbia decided on a second operation. This time there were no slipups. There, curled in his chest, was the free end of the makeshift esophagus, still healthy and unshriveled. After six hours in the operating room, Robert was wheeled out with a working esophagus. Last week he swallowed the first home-cooked square meal of his life: turkey and trimmings topped off with ice cream and cake...
...brought Dr. Joe Albert Risser hurrying to his office in little (pop. 7,043) Bonham, Texas early on the morning of July 31 sounded a good deal like those of polio. The local druggist had a fever of 101, was pale and sweating, had sharp, constricting pains in his chest muscles. When an examination showed nothing wrong, Dr. Risser gave him a sedative and sent him home. Within four hours, the druggist called again. The pains had stopped, he said, and he felt fine, just a little tired...
Poker-faced Leo M. Harvey, 63, an aluminum fabricator in Los Angeles, plays his cards close to his chest. No outsiders have ever found out much about the production, profits or prospects of his family-owned Harvey Machine Co. Last week shrewd-dealing Leo Harvey won a pot that made competitors gasp. The pot was a $46 million Government loan designed to make Harvey the fourth biggest U.S. aluminum producer...