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Word: breath (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would yearn to meet at dusk in an obscure alley. Mr. Marc Clapp grasped the rusticity of the Watchman's Prologue, heavily freighted with forebodings; Mr. Doane Gardiner, as Herald, a track athlete in private life, entered running at a plausibly pelting long-distance pace, yet with breath enough to deliver quite stunningly and with graphic gestures the dreadful Messenger's Speech of the fleet storm-wrecked on it homeward voyage. Mr. Perley Noyes's Agamemnon was a king out of the Iliad, quite as intended by Aeschylus, and Mr. Alfred Longfellow Benshimol's Aegisthos, a brilliant, sparkling daredevil, jubilantly...

Author: By Lucion Price, | Title: From 'Agamemnon' To 'Faust' | 3/2/1963 | See Source »

...honor of la belle France in my heart. At last we came to the bank of a stream, rather wide and too deep to be forded. I sighed relief, because I thought that now we had reached our goal and would rest a moment and catch our breath before turning homeward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 1, 1963 | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

...hypnotize disnation, I can shake de earth's foundation wid de Maple Leaf Rag! Oh go 'way, man, just hold yo' breath a minnit, For there's not a stunt that's in it, wid de Maple Leaf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk Songs: Rag Peddler | 2/22/1963 | See Source »

While her dachshund sank his painted scarlet toenails into the damask couch, the elegant woman known simply as Countess crossed her legs and yawned. A journalist stood for an instant's breath of air, sat back down on two lady buyers who were clawing for her chair. Actress Jeanne Moreau blinked drowsy eyes and flicked waves of ashes to the rug. Vicomtesse Jacqueline de Ribes swung black-mesh-stockinged legs, started a fad, and smiled her best-dressed approval. Outside, snow fell softly on the streets of Paris, and there were some who talked of De Gaulle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: Truly Completely Marvelous | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

Minoru Yamasaki is making an important contribution, but before we mention him in the same breath as Le Corbusier we should take a look at the Harvard campus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Using the Brain | 2/1/1963 | See Source »

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