Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With scarcely a pause for breath, the personnel of four varsity squads are finishing the frenzy of exam period and preparing for potentially crucial contests with Ivy opponents this weekend. The basketball team begins the action against Brown on Friday night at the I.A.B. On Saturday, the swimming team welcomes Cornell to Cambridge while the hockey team travels to Cornell, and the wrestling team to Columbia...
...some "Jazz at Preservation Hall" albums, but such efforts come along very late. The old generation is thinning out. Casimir's death followed the deaths of Clarinetist Steve Angrum and Drummer Chinee Foster. The jazz played by the remaining old men limps along on failing lips and shortened breath. But even so, the music at Preservation Hall is often better than an echo of what used to be: like the Whoopin' Blues, it is a cheerful way of saying goodbye...
...that reading period or your native sophistication has made you just a little too grown up for this. It disintegrates with the first unkind breath, and the actors become paper dolls, the story silly...
...Great Spirit of the Chewing Gum, gum of diverse kinds, we offer this prayer to thee. There is grandeur in chewing gum. It is our marvelous pet, an important accessory of mankind in this modern age. Chewing gum sweetens the breath, imparts a pleasant feeling, strengthens the stomach and calms anger ... It invites happiness. It attracts smiles. An enjoyable and intellectual life is made possible because of gum chewing ... O Great Spirit of the Chewing Gum, rest in peace...
...takes off his glasses to look more formidable. One day he sees the man wearing the jacket of a veterans' organization, and Stern's heart turns over. "It meant the man had come through the worst part of the Normandy campaign, knew how to hold his breath in foxholes for hours at a time and then sneak out to slit a throat in silence. He was skilled as a foot fighter and went always with deadly accuracy to a man's groin...