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