Word: chests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waited for him to slip-just a little -then I banged him." De Sapio clenches his big fists in front of his chest. "Banged him. He made two mistakes. He put through the rent increases and raised the subway fare to 15?. That was enough...
...Cover) His legs are buckled into clumsy shin guards; his face is hidden by the metal grille of a heavy mask. Behind him, vague and impersonal, rises the roar of the crowd. His chest is covered with a corrugated protective pad, and his big mitt is thrust out as if to fend off destruction. Exactly 60 ft. 6 in. straight ahead of him, the pitcher looms preternaturally large on his mound of earth. As he crouches close to the ground, his field of vision gives him his own special view of the vast ballpark. The white foul lines stretch...
East Is East & Chest Is Chest...
...Robert Harrington gently strapped Jimmy into the harness of a gadget called the pneumograph. When he switched it on, Jimmy's breathing pattern showed up as two wildly irregular lines on the moving chart. Then Dr. Harrington fitted Jimmy into a chest respirator (which he is experimenting with as a substitute for the iron lung) and a positive-pressure breathing apparatus, both of which, working together, made Jimmy's breathing deeper and more regular...
...could do was to conclude that the increase in lung cancer must be real, and not merely the result of better diagnosis, because, for instance, there is no reason why doctors should diagnose it better in men than in women. And because cancer in other parts of the chest cavity shows a negligible rise in men of the age group now most susceptible to lung cancer, Dr. Pascua concludes that the greater number of aging men cannot be much of a factor. On one point nobody could argue: the increase in lung-cancer deaths was heavily concentrated...