Word: chests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hurdler Martin Lauer, 22, knows how to get in shape. His workouts, though short, are incredibly intense. His basic technique is a series of short, full-throttle sprints broken by what he calls Laufhupser (local dialect for grasshopper), i.e., a sort of Russian balletlike leap touching chest to thighs in midair...
...narrow-bridged. When he smiles, a thin upper lip edges high to reveal a set of glistening teeth and a flash of gold, and little lines creep round his fleshy face and forehead like crinkled aluminum foil. His wide, short neck is well-proportioned to fit his wide-shouldered chest and broad stomach. In his jovial moments he bellows; at his most earnest his voice modulates softly and melodiously. He changes his expression in a flicker; impressing the curious stranger, his small, blue-grey eyes grow bluer, his smile brightens. But he can harden his massive face when he talks...
...should be starting to pay off our [$284 billion] debt . . . Congress itself expects us to get in the business of paying off some of these great obligations, and I think we should." ¶ Pinned an oakleaf cluster, in lieu of a third Distinguished Service Medal, on the chest of retiring General Maxwell D. Taylor. Cracked Ike, as he searched for a place to pin the last award on the much decorated tunic of his wartime comrade: "There's not much room left, is there?" ¶ Adroitly fielded a press conference question that is bound to come...
...pool peddler is happy until he chances upon Muscle Beach, a Pacific sand pile on which barbell brontosauri lovingly cultivate their abs (abdominal beef), glutes (backsides) and pects (chest muscles). There he spies the girl of his dreams-but alas, she loves a weight lifter. Can the underpected salesman sunder this pair? Sure he can, if he will only assert his baritoned intelligence against the rival falsetto. A falsetto, of course, is-in the definition of Poet-Punster Mark Van Doren-a guy with a false set o' values...
...Orleans to receive the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects, the profession's highest award, given in the past to such men as Louis Henri Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. It will also give Gropius a chance to get some long-brooding concerns off his chest. Says Gropius: "We have now amassed such a tremendous arsenal of techniques that their bristling display has nearly robbed us of our sense of balance...