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Word: breath (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exactly this attitude that keeps other great women in the kitchen 100% of the time cooking their gefilte fish. Hooray for Golda! In this day and age especially, as we see ourselves portrayed on TV as empty-headed sex objects, to read of such a woman is a breath of fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 4, 1969 | 4/4/1969 | See Source »

...unity. One U.S. officer recently described his method of helping to pacify Vietnamese villages as one of "jumping into bed with the district chief"?which pretty well sums up how many Americans come on in the eyes of the peasants. Most of all, dissenters object to the warm breath of the U.S. "presence" in the program. "It is hard to give the illusion of sovereignty," says Rand Corporation Anthropologist Gerald Hickey, who has been in Viet Nam since 1956. "We continue with the naive notion that nation building is saturating the country with American advisers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: THE STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF PEACE IN VIET NAM | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...have watched with amazement the reaction of the Harvard community to the small band that has questioned education at Harvard over the last week. For me they are the first breath of fresh air to blow through Harvard yard in a long time. This is the place that the New York Times believes is the bell-weather of universities. Harvard Black studies has been approved and the black students had to shut up. Harvard's "landmark" action showed only that the power structure, who happen to be more academic here than elsewhere, have taken the time to read about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD RADICALS AND COLLINS | 3/28/1969 | See Source »

...could say that this is a building year for us in volleyball," said House Athletic Secretary Joe Mullin. "We were hoping to get a boost in our drive for the Straus, but I guess we just don't have the experience or the depth. We're just holding bated breath and waiting for the spring...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: Leverett Grabs Lead in Volleyball As Withrop's Straus Hopes Dim | 3/27/1969 | See Source »

...read), but is unable to convey either age or weight. He, and Susan Yakutis, who performs more than creditably as Nell Gwynn, are perhaps the primary victims of the text's shortcomings. Often they seem in danger of choking on strings of quaint expletives. "Bloody" and "God's breath" got a good deal of special attention. The author's attention to the special diction of period and character is, in fact, generally insufficient...

Author: By Peter Jaszi, | Title: Monmouth | 3/21/1969 | See Source »

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