Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kilty trills his r's with relish and reluctantly relinquishes his final sibilants shows us how much Falstaff loves the sound of his own voice. But, being old and fat and short of breath, he must speak in spurts. Time and again Kilty will seem to end a sentence, make to move, and then turn back as though to add an afterthought. This is Falstaff exactly, one who loves to spout a comment and then vary it, amend it, augment it, or top it -- and one who, as Milton said of Belial, "could make the worse appear/The better reason...
...defend the court's earlier admonitions to police, urging them to make more use of scientific crime-detection equipment. For that was just what a Los Angeles policeman was doing after a 1964 auto accident, when he caught a whiff of booze on Armando Schmerber's breath and ordered a doc tor to give Schmerber a blood test, even though the defendant objected on the advice of his attorney...
Condition of Choice. To many, the decision amounted to a suggestion that the states employ compulsory blood tests in their fight against the growing number of highway deaths. If so, the suggestion was hardly necessary. Many states already employ other methods, such as the drunkometer breathing apparatus. Seventeen have so-called "implied consent laws." meaning that anyone who drives there agrees to submit to a test of some sort or lose his road privileges. And a bill about to become law in California will give drivers a choice between blood, breath or urine tests...
Where such a choice is available, the driver in condition to make it will have to decide on the spot whether he wants the older, more accurate blood test, which is accepted in most courts as reliable evidence, or the breath and urine tests, which may not be as reliable and are more readily challenged by expert witnesses...
...treading more carefully than some other Eastern Europeans, notably the Hungarians and Czechs. Says Ioffe: "We do not allow ourselves to run wild with our plans." Soviet managers apparently still have little freedom to determine prices-Ioffe does not mention this question. Most important, there is not a breath of a suggestion that business will ever be privately owned...