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Word: breath (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...record to the 54 other marks he holds or shares. Spahn wound up and threw. Crack! Thunk! Oof! A screaming line drive hit Spahn squarely in the belly. He staggered and fell. Somehow he picked up the ball and threw Musial out. He then paused briefly to catch his breath-and went on to beat Musial and the Cardinals, 4-3, driving in the winning run himself with a clutch single...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baseball: The Grand Old Arm | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

...often surprised at the cutaneous shiver which like a sudden wave flows over us and at the heart-swelling and the lachrymal effusion that unexpectedly catch us at intervals. . . . If we abruptly see dark moving form in the woods, our heart stops beating, and we catch our breath instantly and before any particular idea of danger can arise." The vital point of the whole theory James stated thus: "If we fancy some strong emotion, and then try to abstract from our consciousness of it all the feelings of its bodily symptoms, we find we have nothing left behind, no 'mind...

Author: By William James, | Title: The Imprint of James Upon Psychology | 5/10/1963 | See Source »

...California pediatricians base their theory on a study of 129 infants. Among 41 whose umbilical cords were clamped before they took their second breath, 21 showed moderate to severe respiratory distress. In another group of 52 infants whose umbilicals had been clamped some time after the second breath, only six suffered the same symptoms. The condition of the infants who retained their umbilical cords longest was by far the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obstetrics: Cutting the Cord Too Soon | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

...save the day for them sometime. "To those of you who wish to alter radically the balance of power between a majority in the Senate and a minority, I say, You Sow tre Wind, for minorities change and the time will surely come when you will feel the hot breath of a righteous majority at the back of you own neck." To many liberals, this is all very irrelevant to the business of obtaining full civil rights now. But to Ennuyé, who feels strongly that "democracy (is not) majority rule, but rather...the forged compromise of the majority with...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, Albert B. Crenshaw, and Donal F. Holway, S | Title: Portraits of Some Freshman Senators | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

...Senate (1939-45) and a notably unhappy period as commissioner of major league baseball (1945-51). Opposing Chandler in the May 28 Democratic primary is Lawyer Edward T. Breathitt Jr., 38, who has the backing of Incumbent Governor Bert Combs. Old Happy is pretty much ignoring Breathitt (pronounced breath-it) and is popping his cork at Combs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Old Happy | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

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