Word: chests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extraordinary accomplishment," said the President of the U.S., and so saying, he pinned a Legion of Merit on the much-decorated chest of Navy Captain Edward Latimer Beach last week. Ned Beach, 42, had just made the kind of history that even Presidents can envy: under his command the world's largest submarine, the nuclear, 3O-knot-plus U.S.S. Triton, had completed the first underwater circumnavigation of the globe...
Moments after the deathly pale figure moved for the last time, his head slumped on his chest, one of the associate wardens broke the silence in San Quentin's execution witness room, announced firmly: ''That's all, gentlemen...
Dreaming with the Eyes. Riesel, who is built like a banty rooster (5 ft. 4 in., 150 Ibs., with a 42-in. chest) and has a disposition to match, does not consider his blindness a handicap. He lay in bed for six weeks after the night in 1956 when a thug, hired by labor racketeers whom Riesel had been writing about, threw six ounces of acid in his eyes. All the while, he vowed to get back to his office and on the job. "They knocked me out for six weeks," he says of his enemies. "And that...
...stage in the final act snarling at the conductor, "Finish it yourself." Gussie finished it herself by singing Don José's part as well as her own. At the moment of truth, when Don José was to have stabbed her, she stuck her thumb in her chest and dropped on the stage...
Only a few of the terrorists were caught -a ragged bunch of teenagers, made wild by hashish, who babbled incoherently about some juju rites in which they had been branded on the chest with five cuts that were supposed to make them invulnerable to bullets. But the song they had sung was well known-"General Moumié Gets Five Million Soldiers." The "general" referred to: Félix-Roland Moumié, 34, who lives in exile in Nkrumah's Ghana...