Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Seven MIG fighters locked in wingtip-to-wingtip formation escorted De Gaulle's plane to its landing. As the general deplaned in khakis and kepi, the band struck up La Marseillaise and a battery of antiaircraft cannon boomed 21 times-so loud and near that bystanders felt the breath of the guns. The honor guard was resplendent in grey, gold and red, and their rifle butts hit the ground with such popping precision that De Gaulle winced involuntarily. "Vive la France!" cried the thousand "workers" assembled to greet De Gaulle as he plunged among them shaking hands...
...dice inexcusably in its report [June 17] on London's reaction to Osborne's play, A Bond Honoured. Writes TIME: "London's critics cast one look at the tasteless mayhem . . . and held their noses." Of the twelve major newspaper critics, at least four held their breath. Harold Hobson in the Sunday Times said of Osborne: "He is not only our most important dramatist; he is also our chief prophet." According to Ronald Bryden of the Observer, "the effect of A Bond Honoured in performance is marvelously theatrical." Alan Brien of the Sunday Telegraph thought it "a serious...
...night your moth-breath...
...share of lung trouble. But after more than 20 years, his ECG is normal, although X rays show the bullet still firmly lodged in the back wall of his left ventricle. There it swings, pendulum fashion, with each heartbeat. Though the veteran sometimes suffers from short ness of breath and dizziness, his main trouble is anxiety. And as with four others among the 40 cases, say the investigators, it is the anxiety, not the metal in his heart, that has kept him from working...
...August 3, 1954, Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 81, slept as one privileged. With her last breath, as the light faded, she whispered: "Look...