Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will not buy. The other three white hunters follow the spoor of a comely teen-ager (Michele Girardon). Director Howard Hawks kids these silly romances, but two hours and 40 minutes among the wildebeests is apt to send moviegoers stampeding down the aisles for a deep, bracing breath of carbon monoxide...
...Said Hayakawa: "These people are systematically trying to destroy the use of memory. They tell you to 'write it down,' not memorize it. Try writing a telephone number down in a dark booth while groping for a pencil, searching in an obsolete phone book and gasping for breath. And all this in the name of efficiency ! Engineers have a terrible intellectual weakness. 'If it fits the machine,' they say, 'then it ought to fit people.' This is something that bothers me very much: absentmindedness about people...
Stowaway in the Sky will enchant moppet, matron and greybeard with its breath-catching, balloonist's-eye view of the fair land of France...
...Brandenburg has become-"Get Scherbaum." Czech-born Scherbaum, 52, studied at the Prague Academy of Music, graduated to the Brno Opera Orchestra, and while there started "experimenting with playing ordinary trumpet parts an octave higher than written-just as a hobby." The hobby, Scherbaum thinks, helped him develop the breath control and facial muscles necessary for the baroque trumpet. Hired by Furtwangler as solo trumpet for the Berlin Philharmonic. Scherbaum returned to Czechoslovakia after World War II in 1951 settled in Hamburg, where he quickly became the highest paid and most famous member of the North German Radio Orchestra...
...local courts. "I make more money since I left the Teamsters than they ever paid me." he says. "I've got six corporations, and I don't take any salary. I put it all back into the corporate structure-and may my mother never draw another breath if this isn't so." Since 1957 he has acquired a $450,000 warehouse, a $900,000 motel, a $375,000 restaurant and office building, a $250,000 retail store, and a tavern worth...