Word: chests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elfin daughter Sylvia, Vera Brühne was a familiar and whispered-about figure in Munich. An elegant, well born, still icily attractive woman of 52, she loved expensive clothes, fashionable parties, the best nightspots. She also had some peculiar tastes; once she planned to hide in a Renaissance chest in her flat and watch Sylvia seduce a friend's 14-year-old son. Lurking in her background was a burly construction worker named Johann Ferbach, 49, a wartime deserter from the Wehrmacht who met Vera during an air raid in 1944 and remained with her through...
...written by his own gagmen and delivered by Co-Star Lucille Ball. "I don't know just how old Bob is," said the sprightly redhead, "but he's closer to medicare than most Republicans." Added Lucy, recalling Hope's salad days: "He was handsome then-big chest, hard stomach. Of course, that's all behind him now." . . . Stage realism is all very well, but Actor Hugh Griffith, 50, a 1960 Oscar winner for his comic role as the chariot-racing Sheik Ilderim in Ben-Hur, laid it on a mite thick. Standing atop a wooden...
...them. Becerra vainly shouted for order, but gave up in despair. He ordered the chamber lights turned off and left the room. The Deputies filed from the building, trying to pick their way between police and rioting Peronistas. One Deputy, slowed by a lame leg, was hit in the chest by a tear-gas bomb and hospitalized...
Navarro insists that a microphone only amplifies his sounds, but he is clearly a masterful student of public-address systems: his whispered "God Save the Queen" becomes the chant of thousands when breathed into the mike. "I make the big sounds down below the chest, the little ones up by the lips," he explains...
...kilometer grind over the quiet roads around Herentals. He has little time for friends, even less for his fans. He smiles only under duress, refuses to sign autographs, pose for pictures or answer questions before a race. His vocation has deformed his body, leaving him with a bony chest and shoulders, arms that are stumpy and weak. He runs only with difficulty, and he cannot even walk very far without agonizing cramps. But Van Looy's massive, muscle-knotted legs can power a lightweight (17 Ibs.) aluminum racing bike at a speed of 30 m.p.h. for hours...