Word: chests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...regarded physical examinations with a mixture of pride and vague presentiment. For twelve months of the year his body had hummed along minding its own business; then it was suddenly summoned to account for itself when Vag decided he wanted to play House volleyball. Facing the prospect of chest x-rays, urinalysis, and assorted jiggery-pokery, Vag felt rather like a nominal believer about to be asked spot quotations from the Bible on the Day of Judgement--there was nothing he could do in preparation, but he dreaded anything going wrong...
...blatantly erroneous hands penalty on Keyes gave Brown its only tally and pulled the Bruins within reach of the varsity, 2 to 1. When Keyes blocked a Bruin pass with his chest, the referee, standing directly behind him, called hands. The penalty was so preposterous that any sort of protest was obviously useless. Brown halfback Pat Jones then scored on a beautiful penalty kick into the upper right-hand corner of the Crimson goal...
...Ambassador James Wadsworth. According to Tsarapkin, Wadsworth's insistence that Russia must agree to study U.S. data on the difficulties of long-range detection of underground nuclear tests was a clear attempt "to throw the talks into a hopeless impasse." Then, with that off his chest, Tsarapkin blandly announced that Russia was now ready to "propose" that a joint working party of Soviet, British and U.S. scientists be directed to study the U.S. underground data...
...Notre Dame (2-3) until a fourth-quarter touchdown tied the score at 22-22. Then, with 32 seconds to go, Notre Dame's massive (6 ft., 225 lbs.) End Monty Stickles tried a field goal from the Navy 33, buried his head in a teammate's chest until he heard the roar of the hometown South Bend crowd that announced he had booted his team to a 25-22 victory in one of the year's memorable battles...
...face of a thousand campaign posters, repeated many times daily over radio and television, this catchy play-on-words has caught the voters' attention. Asked to define a "power politician," Collins called him "one interested in helping himself rather than the city, who has a big campaign chest, and who in the final days of the campaign will try to submerge the issues under a flood of newspaper advertisements and radio-television appearances...