Word: chesting
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...Force Base in southern Oklahoma, an increasing number no longer walked with brisk military step or the traditional wild-blue-yonder look. First by ones and twos, then at the rate of ten a day, they shuffled with short, gingerly steps to the base hospital. Heads sunk to their chests, their breathing fast and shallow, they complained that it hurt if they breathed deeply. Any jarring motion, even from a few brisk steps, was painful. Some kept their arms folded to serve as a sort of splint for the chest...
Diamond Fever. Helena's father was the son of an English doctor named Dayrell who had settled in Brazil because he had a "weak chest." Her mother was one of ten daughters of a Brazilian who married off his girls without their leave by the simple process of interviewing the proposing swains. Helena records family stories of how the girls "used to peek through the keyhole and tell each other, 'I think that so-and-so's mine.' " Helena's mother was one of only two who married for love, and it was-as charmingly...
...early '30s, Harvey Jr. went on the show 50 times in twelve months with short talks on the history of transportation and rubber), one of the five Firestone brothers appears at one time or another to make an appeal for his pet charity (4-H Clubs, Community Chest, Future Farmers of America). And once, musically ambitious Elizabeth Firestone, granddaughter of the founder, got a chance on the show to introduce one of her own piano concertos...
...grumbled the Philadelphia Orchestra's Eugene Ormandy. But after listening to recordings, he hired Norwegian Soprano Aase Nordmo-Lövberg, sight unseen. Last week Soprano Lövberg, 34, a statuesque blonde, appeared in Philadelphia's Academy of Music for her American debut. Despite a deep chest cold, she sang a challenging program of arias from Beethoven's Fidelio and Wagnerian selections. Soprano Lövberg proved to be a sort of Flagstad in miniature, more lyric than dramatic, with a round, pure and rangy voice. Said Conductor Ormandy: "One of the greatest singers...
...Timmy's foster parents (Cloris Leachman and Jon Shepodd) for the first time. Gone after three years was Lassie's old playmate Jeff (Tommy Rettig), who in reel life had to go off to high school, but in real life had outgrown the part (hair on the chest is permissible for a collie, but not a collie's young pal). With him went widowed Mom (Jan Clayton), who told viewers she had to move to the big city to look after Jeff, but off-screen confided that she was simply weary, weary of wearing the same shabby...