Word: chests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Corporal Wendell H. Treffery of Terryville, Conn., a medic of the 7th Division, got it Nov. 30, 1950 south of Changjin Reservoir-first a wound in the chest, then the onrush of screaming Chinese...
Trinity scored again when a shot bounced off Goalie John Ogden's chest protector into the goal. Coach Bruce Munro frequently used his third, fourth, and even fifth midfields late in the game...
Later, aboard a hospital ship, Gonzalez could remember little of what had happened to him in the 30 hours since he had been ambushed, wounded in the neck and chest by burp-gun fire, and captured. He had been beaten by the Chinese, but did not remember being released. Said he: "I thought I had escaped." Actually, he was the first American to benefit directly from the new Red peace offensive, the first wounded prisoner to be returned...
...luxurious apartment. He called in some pals, and until after midnight, sounds of laughing and drinking came from the rooms. Apparently, after the guests left, Juan Duarte concluded that it was time to check out. His valet found him in the morning with a bullet in his chest...
...ornate House of the Trade Unions. There, where Lenin lay in state in 1924, the neatly arrayed remains of Joseph Stalin were placed. In sallow, impassive dignity, Stalin's body lay in the glare of spotlights, the huge grey head resting on a silken pillow, the chest of his simple, military tunic adazzle with medals and ribbons; others glinted on a pillow laid at the foot of his bier. Through the great hall floated the sickish scent of massed flowers, from Peking and all the conquered capitals of Eastern Europe, from Communist Parties all over, from Stalingrad and Stalino...