Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...untested car on a rain-drenched track outside Stuttgart, Germany-in something called the Solitude Grand Prix. The prize was far from grand-no championship points, no money to speak of (winner's purse: $1,500)-but Scotland's Clark still turned the afternoon into a breath-taking demonstration of his driving genius...
...first time not as people, but as a thing, a shadow in which I lived, we lived, all white people, all other people. I thought of all the children coming forever and ever into the world, white, with black shadow already falling upon them before they drew breath...
...bloody butcher knife. 'Now you'll let white women alone, even in hell,' he said. But the man on the floor had not moved . . . From out the slashed garments about his hips and loins the pent black blood seemed to rush like a released breath . . . upon that black blast the man seemed to rise soaring into their memories forever and ever. They are not to lose it, in whatever peaceful valleys, beside whatever placid and reassuring streams of old age, in the mirroring faces of whatever children they will contemplate old disasters and newer hopes...
...difficulty relatively easy to diagnose. But small clots that block some of the smaller arterial branches are far more common than such massive pulmonary embolisms. The trouble is, they are so hard to detect that the true nature of the illness is often missed. Patients complain of shortness of breath, they faint frequently, and they may collapse after exertion, leaving their doctors baffled. Now, atomic medicine is coming to the aid of chest physicians and embolism patients with an ingenious and relatively simple diagnostic procedure...
...headed straight for the water when it clipped a footbridge and kicked across. A No. 9 iron put Tony on, 15 feet from the pin -and when Arnie left his wedge short of the green, Lema suddenly had another chance to win. This time he took a deep breath and stroked the ball neatly into the center of the cup. Birdie, hole and match for Lema's third victory in four weeks. His 1964 winnings now totaled $60,561, only $1,090 behind King Palmer himself...