Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Singer Mahalia Jackson. First she sang a slow, sorrowful Gospel song titled I've Been Buked and I've Been Scorned. Her voice was marvelous, but her impact was more in her manner. Near tears, she moved her huge audience to tears. But in the very next breath, she would break into an expression of expectant happiness. When that happened, people who had been sobbing a second before began laughing, sharing in her expectancy...
...skindiving student had surfaced rapidly from the bottom of a 14-ft. training tank in Seattle, and despite his training, he had evidently held his breath all the way up. Within seconds, he was half unconscious, and his left side was paralyzed. The instructor and his diving comrades rushed the victim to General Practitioner Charles A. Kruse, who had two important qualifications for handling the case: his of fice was near by, and he is an enthusiastic skindiver himself...
...surprise to the battery of physicians at Otis Air Force Base last week that the baby soon to be baptized Patrick Bouvier Kennedy (see THE NATION) had difficulty drawing his first breath. Like one out of every 15 U.S. babies, this one was premature, and the greater the degree of prematurity, the greater the danger that a baby's lungs will not inflate properly. Patrick also had a second strike on him: the danger of breathing difficulty is still greater for a premature baby delivered by caesarean section...
...direct result of Martinis' swerving" from one lane to another; 4) he left the scene of the accident "without reporting or identifying himself" to police; 5) the police had reasonable grounds to believe that he was driving while drunk because he "had an odor of intoxicants on his breath, was incoherent, and was unsteady on his feet at least one half-hour after the occurrence of the accident." Then the Department of Motor Vehicles dealt out the hardest punishment within its reach: it revoked Martinis' driver's license. Eugene Kramon, a Manhattan slacks manufacturer...
...lung disorder usually shows up as a droop in the loop made by the dot as it moves downward across the screen during exhalation. Besides the blow-out test, each Congressman had a chest X ray and filled out a short questionnaire: "Are you ever troubled by shortness of breath? Do you have more than two colds a year...