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Word: breath (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lumping three of its retail men's-apparel chains into one overhead-cutting group, and Jarman predicts that per-share earnings will be up 50% to 75% within seven years. He insists that he plans to hold down on new acquisitions for a while, but in the next breath admits that he would like to make a deal with a good manufacturer of work and play clothes. At Genesco's annual meeting next month he will ask his stockholders to approve a plan to double the company's authorized common shares to 10 million, and to issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: The Impatient Shoemaker | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

...breath, he said he had no complaints. Then he aired...

Author: By Bruce L. Paisner, | Title: Peabody Elected by 8000 Votes; Police Guard Ballots | 11/8/1962 | See Source »

...president of the class, to the third floor of Thayer Hall and the company of strange roommates. A man's body makes the change by airplane from Los Angeles in a few hours; his soul fully arrives in Cambridge two years later, like a beagle, out of breath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Finley Presents Case For Four - Year College | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

...York Times Columnist Arthur Krock: "A double dilemma. It is how to praise the record of this Congress, as he tactically must; in the same breath censure that record by asking for the election of a more sympathetic legislature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: On the Trail | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

Countless times, the 87th seemed about to draw its last breath. At one point Senate Whip Hubert Humphrey definitely predicted a midweek adjournment. But Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield knew better. Asked about Humphrey's forecast, he simply sighed: "What week?" A newsman suggested to Mansfield that in Election Year 1962. a lot of members of Congress were by now praying for adjournment. Retorted Mansfield: "If I pray any more, I'm going to have housemaid's knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: The Death of the 87th | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

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