Word: chests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bent over his drafting board at an Army Engineers' installation in Alexandria, Va., Private Norman L. Hickey, 27, felt a sudden tightening around his chest -"as though someone had been screwing down a metal band around it, and I was shaking like a leaf." He worked on. Next day, too nauseated to eat, Hickey felt the tightness return. He gave up, went on sick call. Doctors, unable to decide what ailed him, even sent him to a fever isolation ward before he ended up in the cardiac clinic of Walter Reed Army Hospital. Because his case was so tricky...
...slit in the aorta they slipped the stem of the tee-shaped gadget, then worked this down into the heart wall until its head plugged the blowout. After trimming off excess stem, they sewed the plug in place. Then they stitched up the incisions, closed Hickey's chest and let him thaw...
...victim removed last week was a strongly built man sprawling on his belly, legs wide apart, hands covering his face, neck drawn in. The minutely defined muscles of legs, arms and chest were bulging in their final death spasm. Theorized Archaeologist Maiuri: "Judging from the body's musculature and from the fact that the man was fleeing alone, I would say that he was a workman or a servant. He waited under some shaky roof or vault, hoping that the storm of lapilli, pumice and ash would pass over. Then, in the midst of the blinding storm and blackening...
...special committee of the Cornell Council has taken charge of raising money for the program," Stephen A. McCarthy, head librarian of Cornell said. "What we hope for is several very large donations,' he added, "since the last thing we want to do is to run a Community Chest Drive. The new library is available, but it will come at a rather steep price...
...heroine is a touching half-wit. His hero, an almost apelike brute, is a scowling professional strong man who breaks chains by expanding his chest. His spark of hope is an odd clown who cannot help teasing the strong...