Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stated that Prado had hit him without any provocation. He said that the Cubans had threatened him with violence at previous meetings. Prado, he said, had approached him in the lobby end "called me a few names. I was about to say, 'I can smell the liquor of your breath' when a blow hit my head...
...faint relaxation of tension. British armored cars, with Union Jacks covering their hoods, patrolled the no man's land between the Greek and Turkish sectors in the capital city of Nicosia. Irregulars of both sides slowly evacuated their rooftop positions to squads of British troops. Everyone held his breath when three Greek monks were slain by Turks. But it was reportedly not a political killing: the Turks were said to have been seeking revenge because a dog belonging to the monastery had attacked their goats. Emotions are kept on edge by a proliferation of atrocity photos-the picture...
...Governor hooked his left hand under the belt of his pants. It seems to be a characteristic gesture, but he has to suck his breath in hard to accomplish it: the former 100-pound high school basketball player occasionally seems to forget that he now carries a portly 185 pounds. What did he think of Pennsylvania Gov. William G. Scranton's chances? Scranton, he agreed, is the man to beat. "He has all the party professionals behind him, and while Nixon has grass-roots following, he can't convince the pros." Governor Brown said that Goldwater was badly hurt...
Then, through his dirty glasses, he saw the dancing stars of light, red, green, blue, and yellow, adorning the lamp posts. His breath caught at the sight. The lights reminded him of the glints gently refracting off the top of the soup he had eaten for dinner...
...more concerned with his approach to the whole repertoire than with mastering any special part of it. "We must apply the technique of the singer to the instruments," he says. "A musi cian has to feel that he is sing ing, supporting the music by the breath. The breath is your soul. The breath is your life-the only divine part...