Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OUTRAGED and Yale men have been their collars and muttering under breath for the past month in of a new and "unnatural" College ulation--one requiring them to coats and ties at dinner. Not meals--just evening meals and day dinner...
...torture called 'del ahogadito' -- the little drowning. They make you strip off every stitch of clothing down to your undershorts, then they distract your attention and when you are least expecting it, you get a punch in the stomach or the liver and before you catch your breath, they grab you by the hair and push you head first into a barrel of water . . . There were other tortures, like 'the little monkey.' In this one they strip the prisoner and put him up on a pole that goes across the room under the ceiling, making him hang head down...
...woofs (plus a screech or two from the barkless Basenji), poodles again rated as the top contenders for Westminster's top award. The dogs were benched beneath the Garden's main floor, surrounded by dog manicurists and hairdressers, fussing owners, and concessionaires who peddled everything from breath sweeteners and "No-Mate Tablets'' to life-size dog portraits ($35 and up). On the main floor, perfumed, powdered and pomaded pooches paraded in a dozen rings against a backdrop of purple and gold Westminster banners...
...priests or nuns," he told 6,000 students at the convention. "A magazine took a survey. One kid said, 'I don't like Latin.' So he'll never be a doctor; who likes blood? He'll never be a dentist; who likes bad breath? He'll never be a ditchdigger, even; who likes dirt...
...monster scale. It looked as if President Kennedy's flinty remark to a flinty Khrushchev at Vienna-"It's going to be a cold winter"-would prove all too true. But last week, after long months in which Moscow has hardly let Kennedy take a deep breath, the tension seemed to be relaxing a little. At his press conference the President was cautiously optimistic. Said he: "We are always hopeful, and we are making every effort that we can to bring an easing of tensions...