Word: chests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thyraton stimulator, a standard laboratory machine the size of a table radio, provides the missing heart beat. "Hooking up" a patient simply requires a hypodermic needle, connected to the machine, into each side of the chest...
...Community Chest collections are a typical voluntary American enterprise. Denver began them in 1887, when ten charitable agencies united for one efficient fund-raising and fund-sharing drive. New Orleans in 1928 added the red feather as the symbol of united giving ("a feather in your cap"). Today, the millions contributed to well-organized community chests are distributed among some 17,000 services. Among them: Y.M.C.A., Y.W.C.A., Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Visiting Nurses, Salvation Army, settlement houses, neighborhood centers, etc. Since the Korean war, one of the Red Feather agencies is the United Defense Fund, which includes such servicemen...
...Feather placards and the slogan "Give." Over the two local radio stations, at 30-minute intervals, sounded one loud knock, then seven more knocks, and finally a voice saying, "You'd rather have your door knocked once than seven times, wouldn't you? Give to the Community Chest!" (The knocks referred to the seven local agencies for which funds were being sought...
...Lion of Judah's throne at the Addis Ababa airport. "So delighted was the King," Julian recalled, "that he climbed down most unprecedentedly from his throne, slapped me on the back, swore me in as an Ethiopian citizen, made me Colonel of the Air Forces, pinned on my chest the Menelik medal for bravery, and gave me 5,000 bucks in cash...
...fair-to-middling Vanderbilt mare by the great Discovery). "He doesn't have a nerve in his body, or a drop of temperament," according to Trainer Winfrey. This is one explanation of the Dancer's greatness. Another, Winfrey suspects, is inside the colt's deep chest: "Those lungs may be his greatest asset. At the end of a race he never shows the slightest sign of being winded or tired." Winfrey likens Native Dancer's staying power to that of Henry Armstrong, the triple-crown champion-who cut as wide a swath in boxing as Native...