Word: chesting
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...accuse The Current of "Harvard indifference;" the magazines is too honest, too obviously concerned, for that. But we can ask that, having gotten self-examination off its editorial chest, the magazine enlarge its interests. There is room in it for fiction, more poetry like William Alfred's political articles, and reviews...
...stands 5 ft. 10½ in., has broad, heavy shoulders and a deep chest that is 45 in. around. This accounts for the tympanic resonance of his voice, which is so rich and overpowering that it could give an air of verse to a recipe for stewed hare...
...much the same pitiless sting as Goya's gruesome series of etchings. The Disasters of the War. Man's shreds of nobility as well as his flesh rot away into humus. A flower casually grows through the clenched hand of a corpse, petals sprout from his chest...
...lungs of most newborn infants begin to work exactly on schedule. But among some babies, particularly the premature, the lungs fail to expand properly. The chest sags, breathing is rapid and the child turns blue. Many deaths during the first week after birth are attributable to this condition, which doctors describe as the "respiratory distress syndrome...
...staging invites a good fall. London, the intellectual Boris, dies intelligently-a heave, a cry, a little gasp, and he's gone, rolling gently down the stairs. Hines, though, plays it for all he's worth. Clawing the air, grasping his heaving chest, he cries his final line ("Forgive me! Forgive me!") and pitches himself headlong down the stairs. Surely it will be the end of him some day, and then there will only be five great Borises...