Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...destroy those twelve aircraft in five minutes," Nasser scoffed in his speech last week. For his part, Nasser is launching what he calls his "long-breath strategy." He is paring his army from 70,000 men to 40,000, withdrawing from exposed positions in eastern and northern Yemen, and tightening his hold on the parts of Yemen that really count: the Red Sea coastline; a northern boundary that takes in the well-fortified town of Hajja and the capital, Sana; and the border with the South Arabian Federation, which becomes independent in 1968 and offers a tempting target for further...
...Lumps of stone or bronze of any form whatsoever," said he, "will, helped by the skilled persuasion of venders, and often, I am sorry to say, financially involved and therefore perhaps not unbiased writers on art, be received with bated breath and called 'profound imponderables' or some such meaningless phrase. Accidental splashes of color or rags or sacking on canvas, the man will boldly tell you, is an art of great significance, and if you look at it long enough, 'will do something to you'; and we are all too timid to answer 'Nonsense...
...three positions, Navy will have Bill Burns, West Overton, and Captain John Williamson. The Middies can't quite match Harvard at either end of the ladder, but they are always in shape--and you never know when Kileff might run out of breath...
...week's end, Rhodesia's Ian Smith announced that he no longer even wanted the Ioanna V's oil, since it would only aggravate the already messy diplomatic problems. In the next breath, he severed all remaining diplomatic ties with Britain by closing the British mission in Salisbury and Rhodesia House in London. He blasted Harold Wilson's government as "hypocritical," and-in a sly bit of one-upmanship-claimed that the U.N. resolution itself "unwittingly acknowledged Rhodesia's independence...
...convention, which separated the Democrats from the Dixiecrats in short order. Senator Humphrey established himself as one of Washington's most voluble men-Johnson was later to say that "the time it takes Humphrey to prepare a speech is the time it takes to draw a deep breath"-and he offended many of his seniors, including those who controlled committee assignments and the fate of the bills he introduced in profusion (the first was for a medicare program...