Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...German when he caught sight of his Widener Library vision. When the next dance began, he wound through the couples looking for her, to cut in on her, but when he drew near her, he turned and walked over to the wall, where he caught his breath and realized he was frightened." After that, "when he walked through the Yard on his way to classes; his eyes revolved on all the walks in the hope of seeing...
According to one report, "The Princeton stands reacted with sullen rebellion; it was into this mood that the 'Poon injected a fake Crimson extra at halftime. Headed BILL ROPER, PRINCETON COACH, DIES ON FIELD with the explanatory crossline HELD BREATH TOO LONG, the issue left Mrs. Roper in a dead faint and football relations between the schools with an eight-year...
VICOS is a former hacienda set in a breath-taking Andean valley two miles high, yet more than ten thousand feet below the summits of massive snowpeaks. Before Cornell University anthropologists began--by arrangement with the government of Peru--an unusual development program in 1952, the hacienda's two thousand Quechua-speaking Indians lived on the brink of starvation...
...handful of saboteurs sent to destroy a gun emplacement on the German-held Greek island of Navarone. The story line is direct, and, from the first briefing sessions to the final cataclysmic destruction of the guns, climax builds upon climax, without so much as a pause for breath...
Fortunately, there comes now and then a breath of fresh air, most of it from Joyce Grenfell's direction. Comedienne Grenfell, who plays a sort of female Keystone Kop, brings to her part the appearance of a female Fernandel. Horse-faced and giraffe-bodied, long in the tooth and weak in the head, she seems to have been endowed by her creator with certain inalienable wrongs, among them five legs, seven elbows and 423 teeth. In one episode, she shows up as a harem girl to end all harems, and she almost saves the show when she whips...