Word: chests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coughing, vomiting and experiencing chest pains, Ruby at first received treatment for a virus at the jail, was hospitalized only after he assured Sheriff William Decker that he was feeling "not worth a damn." Though the precise source of Ruby's cancer remained undetermined, tests showed a malignancy in a lymph node in his neck and a cluster of nodules in the chest and lungs. So far advanced is the cancer that doctors ruled out surgery and radiation, instead gave Ruby regular intravenous doses of 5-fluorouracil, a drug that starves cancerous cells and, when successful, slows the deadly...
...there was a growing sense of competition in the top ranks of the Kremlin, Brezhnev - recognized all along by most experts as primus inter pares - was quick to minimize its importance. Said he as the new medal was pinned to his chest: "In the face of the great task that has to be accomplished, I am encouraged by an awareness of the fact that in the entire Central Commit tee and the government we are working as a smooth, harmonious collective, relying on each other's assistance...
...Jack Ruby, 55, in serious condition at Dallas'Parkland Memorial Hospital after surgery to remove a cancerous lymph node from his chest; Britain's Queen Mother Elizabeth, 66, recovering in London's King Edward VIFs Hospital following an unspecified abdominal operation; Joseph P. Kennedy, 78, resting in Boston's New England Baptist Hospital after an operation to remove lesions from his chest; and Actress Sina Lollobrigida, 38, feeling much better following treatment in Manhattan's Beth Israel Hospital for severe intestinal inflammation that resulted, she said, from eating an unwashed apple in Mexico...
...Barnaby shakes the spell on the brink of a 100-ft. precipice. Barnaby strikes back with some toxic toadstools-Uncle precautiously checks the mushroom sauce. Uncle surrounds Barnaby and Chrissie with a wall of fire-rain puts the fire out. Barnaby plops a tarantula on Uncle's chest-the spider falls happily asleep on Uncle's neck. The spider, as a matter of fact, is the only performer who manages to steal a scene from Actor Green, who comes across as the most stylish blackguard since Cyril Ritchard, as Captain Hook, got gobbled up by that slimy green...
...before a Shapp-for-Governor rally in Pittsburgh, Lawrence declared: "I've never been prouder of the Democratic Party than with the unity we now have." Then he fell heavily to the floor, pulling the lectern over on his chest. He was taken to a hospital, suffering from cardiac arrest, and lay in a deep coma until his death last week. He never knew that Shapp was decisively beaten on Election Day and that the organization he had so carefully constructed was now in shambles...