He had an easy charm and the build of a lineman, six feet tall and barrel-chested.

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The barrel-chested special-operations Vietnam veteran was one of the first civilian pilots selected for the U.S. armed antihijacking corps, in 1974.

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Auletta writes: "Help came in the form of Bill Campbell, then sixty-one, a barrel-chested man known throughout Silicon Valley as "the coach.

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Conte, who is sixty, has a thin mustache and wears small wire-frame glasses that give him the appearance of a barrel-chested laboratory chemist.

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In 1999, when the barrel-chested Marine recruiter showed up in dress blues and bedazzled my son John, I did not stand in the way.

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Next to it a stone frieze of heroes included the balding, barrel-chested figure of Benito Mussolini, Italy's dictator at the time the hall was built.

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That, in a nutshell, is the message Australia's new barrel-chested minister for financial services, Joe Hockey, has been preaching to anyone who cares to listen about Australia's transformation.

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"He was a very robust, big, barrel-chested surfer, " Stevens said.

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Watson reached his 15th Test half century from 95 deliveries in the 30th over but once again the barrel-chested opener fell short of a three-figure score when he misjudged a reverse-swinging delivery, offering no stroke to a ball which moved back into his pads.

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Mr Davidson told the judge that the other soldiers on the course "did not want to pair up" with the "barrel-chested and muscular" man he had to carry because he was the "widest" member of the group and "the heaviest student on the course", weighing in at 220lb.

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