Word: breasted
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...Hence we see men in arms behaving harshly and madly. We see their sword bury itself in the breast of a disarmed enemy who is in the very act of pleading at their knees. We see them triumph over a dying man by describing to him the outrages his corpse will endure. We see Achilles cut the throats of twelve Trojan boys on the funeral pyre of Patroclus as naturally as we cut flowers for a grave. These men, wielding power, have no suspicion of the fact that the consequences of their deeds will at length come home to them...
Jerry German will start in the 220 and the 100 yard races; Frank Krayer will do the backstroke; and Gulio Vielman will swim the breast stroke events. Steffens and Tom Droham are scheduled to do the diving, and Ted Norris will compete in the 440. Starters in the other events have not yet been decided...
...turned upon his breast and back swum...
...Only one of 556 Assemblymen did not vote to have M. de Gaulle serve as President of the Government until the constitution of the Fourth Republic is drafted. Extreme Rightist Louis Dumat abstained from voting: "I am against the Communists. The Communist Party, in hugging De Gaulle to its breast, will try to smother him tomorrow...
...while it seemed that Leicester's marriage might change the course of history by provoking his angry Queen into marriage herself. When France's Duke of Alengon sent an ambassador to sound her out, Elizabeth fondly nicknamed the ambassador "her Monkey," and hugged him to her breast on public occasions. When the hopeful Duke-an ugly little man with pockmarks-scurried over, Elizabeth mooned with him in corners and proclaimed him her long-sought true love. But overnight she decided that he was just a pest-and summoned sweet Robin to escort the Duke home again...