Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...notes or unaccompanied passages, some of which lasted as long as the aria itself. They combined the range of the female voice with the power of the male, interposing a dizzying array of appoggiaturas, mordents, cadenzas, slides, slurs, shakes, trills, turns and leaps. For tonal purity, flexibility precision and breath control, it was a display of vocal acrobatics that has never been equaled...
...year-old Quebec stevedore complained of stomach pains, weight loss, nausea, shortness of breath and a cough. Most frightening of all, his face had turned a morbid blue-grey. Doctors suspected a severe vitamin deficiency, but when 49 identical cases appeared within seven months in the Quebec area, they questioned their first diagnosis...
Some 15 customers didn't budge until a squad car pulled up at 4:15 and two policemen ordered them to leave. Another policemen stood outside the cafeteria until it re-opened at about 4:55. Then, grumbling under his breath about the policy, he marched down to the Waldorf for breakfast...
This time he wasn't climbing simply because it was there. Mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, 47, thought the kids might like a breath of thin air over the holidays. In Nepal to work on a hospital for his old climbing companions, the Sherpas, Sir Edmund packed his ice ax and took his wife, Louise, and their three children, aged seven to eleven, on a trek to the 18,000-ft. base camp from which, in 1953, he became the first man to climb Mount Everest...
...came to appreciate Julie. As the stage manager recalls it, during the first act when Eliza, Henry Higgins and Colonel Pickering fall back on the couch together after The Rain in Spain, Harrison suddenly dried up. He couldn't remember his next line, and the audience held its breath-until Julie grabbed hands and pulled them back to their feet. "Let's take a little bow, boys," she chirped. They did-and Harrison picked up his line. The house broke up and then just relaxed and capitulated to what was to become the longest-running musical in Broadway...