Word: breath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Gerardo Machado drew a deep, relieved breath and, like a contemplative barman picking up the chairs after a routine saloon fight, began setting his country to rights. Like an experienced barman, however, President Machado kept an alert eye cocked for a renewal of hostilities, which hotheads had continued to predict during the past fortnight. In Havana, where an expected uprising never materialized, police sat ready in armored cars. Miguel Marano Gomez, onetime Mayor of Havana, who spent the revolutionary period hiding in Havana, waiting for the insurrecto campaign on the eastern end of the island to become...
...Democratic Governor's call for a special session to arm its foes, Tammany construed as an unfriendly and disloyal act. Its leaders cursed him under breath, publicly declared that he was putting himself and his party "into a hole" Tammany's men in the Legislature were prepared to fight the immunity bill to the death, or else turn it against the Republicans by starting investigations of upState, Republican-run cities. Friends who are managing his presidential candidacy hoped Governor Roosevelt had helped himself outside New York City by showing his independence of Tammany dictation...
...legacy" and intriguing to have Governor Murray impeached because he blocked repeal of the State's oil laws. Retorted Oilman Sinclair: "If the absurdity and injustice of the Governor's proclamation is not clear to all, anything I might say about it would be wasted breath. All the proclamations and troops in the world can't add one cent to the price of oil. It verges on the ridiculous...
Corporal Cain the second before he stepped off the plane's wing (see upper cut). But the open, straining mouth did not express terror or anguish; Corporal Cain was merely gasping in one last deep breath of rushing air before his plunge. Another view (see lower cut) showed what the parachutist sees as he looks down to select a landing spot...
...Poole. In angry tones he flayed a recent advertisement of Lambert (Listerine) Co. which was captioned: "Eggs! They tear you down socially." He called this a "vicious mispresentation" despite the fact that the advertisement assured its public that eggs are good for the system if not for the breath...