Word: chesting
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...Fisher had kept his defibrillator sterilized, ready for just such an emergency. It was rushed to the operating room, another incision was made in the patient's chest, and the machine's two electrodes were placed on opposite sides of her heart. A doctor pressed a button and sent a 110-volt, 1½-ampere current shooting through the heart for just half a second. Shocked, the fluttering heart muscles jerked to a sudden stop. Then, to the vast relief of the doctors, the muscles began pulsing in a steady, even rhythm. Nurse Timke would live...
...hillside inn overlooking the George August University of Göttingen, Germany, students sat around a table one night last week drinking beer. They were dressed in their Sunday best; but each also sported a brightly colored cap, and each wore across his chest a brightly colored ribbon. These were the regalia of the Burschenschaften-the ancient dueling corporations that were banned after the war. For the first time in six years, Göttingen's corporations were holding their semester convention right out in the open...
...with tear gas. A jaunty French colonel, full-uniformed to campaign ribbons and kepi, attempted to argue with them. Two pistol shots rang out, a heavy club landed on the colonel's unhelmeted head, and when the skirmish was done, an Arab dagger was found plunged into his chest. The colonel walked to his jeep and died. Eight Arabs were killed and 20 wounded in the battle. At Porto Farina, a Tommy gun mowed down one gendarme from behind a cactus hedge. "I've been stationed here for five years," said one bewildered cop, "and I never thought...
...camp with his wife and four children: Olga, now 19; Roman, 18; Irena, 16; and Eugenia, 15. Recently he got an offer to move to the U.S. to work on a tobacco farm near Buffalo. The family packed and got set to go. Then pale Olga pressed her flat chest against the X-ray plate: a spot on one lung-active TB. Ineligible...
...named Alperovici, whom she calls simply "Honest Boris." "The only thing Boris cannot do," said Gracie, "is sing. We went for a walk this morning and he started singing a Bessarabian love song. I had to tell him to shut up." But, she added, "you should just see his chest. Talk about hairy...