Word: chesting
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...flax-haired Lancelot for a bucolic Arthur. They pledge their fraternity over staked swords. . . . Later, in a druidic Devon wood, Aelfrida's beauty twists this pledge. It is too early in history for a Lancelot to live with his own deceit. He buries his dagger in his own chest for brother-love, which is yet held above love for woman. Hasty critics have objected that such a tragedy belies human nature and should hinge more heavily on the sex motif. Which objection misses the gist of a drama laid at the roots of what Saxons have immemorially called their...
...chest may be considered to be a keg of two compartments (pleural cavities), each containing a lung. As each lung expands, it fills its compartment; as it contracts, it leaves a void. Tubercular lungs struggle to fill their pleural compartments; they get no opportunity to rest and heal the sores that tuberculosis germs are eating into their tissues. If one lung could cease its transference of oxygen from the air to the blood and carbon dioxide from the blood to the air, if it could get a rest, it might heal up. The operation of artificial pneumothorax does give...
...Thuggish method of forcing passage through a throng. The hands are held clenched close to the chest, the elbows flexed and projected stiffly to each side of the torso. To move forward one jabs bystanders with the elbows and, as they wince, sidles through the opening...
...peers were reputedly grateful to him, in cash and in advance, for whatever influence he may have exercised toward their creations. A high-minded statesman, Mr. Lloyd George naturally did not touch a penny or pound of this grateful gold. It was all voluntarily contributed to a curious "war chest" (campaign fund)-curious because Mr. Lloyd George retains to this day absolute control of more than ?1,000,000 in "almightie gold." Last week the little Welshman went shopping. None cried: Taffy was a Welshman Taffy was a thief...
...party received him with respect. An hour later they voted 16 to 12 to accept terms from Mr. Lloyd George as follows: 1) resignation of all members of the Organizing Committee not favored by him; 2) a pledge by Mr. Lloyd George to contribute the income of his "war chest" to be used "free from any conditions" to finance the Liberal campaign at the next parliamentary elections. That meant Mr. Lloyd George had bought the Liberal party...