Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...open. But it went as far as present techniques could go, and it would do all that any agreement could do to relieve the Communist-fanned fear of rising radioactivity from the fallout of surface blasts. Yet for all the good it did, the U.S. might have saved its breath. The Soviet Union's immediate reaction: a flat "rejected." Cried Soviet Delegate Semyon K. Tsarapkin: "A conspiracy. It is unacceptable, of course." Moscow's reaction should have surprised no one. Month after month Western diplomats have floated into Geneva on floods of hope only to be dashed against...
...cult of hardy sailors in the New York City area, the winter weekend is counted a happy one when the thermometer crouches in the low 20s and a breath-catching wind sweeps snow across the grey waters of Long Island Sound. This is prime sailing weather, and down to the Sound they go, heavily bundled and goggled against the cold, to race one another in frisky, flippy, 11½-foot frostbite dinghies...
While Love gives wide local powers to his executives, he so dominates the whole works that when he takes a deep breath underlings exhale. He dislikes conferences, keeps in touch by firing off a hundred crisp yet polite memos a day. He knuckles down hard on men who do not produce. A few years ago, so many top executives were leaving Burlington that someone suggested that Old Soldier Love establish a separation center. But for all his toughness, even his fiercest competitors call Love "the leader of the industry." They do not always follow his lead. Unlike many anti-import...
...beach on a stark, windly night and there was a fire far in the distance. You run toward the fire, knowing that next year you'll make the cross country team if you go fast enough. But it's always there, and burning in the night." Gene paused for breath...
Without a Trace. In Dallas, a burglar robbed a tavern, made off with 252 cans of beer and 174 breath-cleansing chlorophyll tablets...