Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...midmorning on May 5, 1961. U.S. President John F. Kennedy, his wife and a group of his closest associates in Government stood in a White House office room, their gaze fastened upon a television screen. Like millions of Americans in millions of other homes, they held their breath, crossed their fingers and prayed as they watched the Redstone rocket belch flame on its Cape Canaveral firing pad, lift off with maddening slowness, then streak magnificently southward...
...practice. Then the retro package was jettisoned. Preparing for descent, Shepard reported that his periscope had retracted. As the capsule plunged downward into the atmosphere, and the Gs of deceleration climbed toward a punishing 10, the astronaut's voice grew gruff as he strained to make his breath behave. Then the capsule slowed; his words were distinct again...
Nobody will ever find DMBA, as Huggins calls it to save breath, on a steak-house menu. It is one of several complex hydrocarbons that may be produced when vegetable and animal substances are subjected to very high temperatures. (Some are produced when tobacco burns at 1.300° to 1,600° F. in a cigarette.) They can be used to cause cancer in certain animals. Said Dr. Huggins: "If breast cancer can be caused in rats with one feeding of DMBA, the same may also occur in humans. I'm not saying that it does-just that...
When Accuser Lisagor paused for breath, Max Freedman, capital correspondent for England's Manchester Guardian, tired from another flank. The conference format, said Freedman suavely, is rich in ''entrenched blunders," but thanks to Kennedy's rhetorical skill, "the structure of the English sentence is no longer left as a dishonored casualty." Freedman generously split the blame for the conference format's failure between the reportorial inquisitors-"the only class appointed without an examination to conduct cross-examination"-and President Kennedy, who is compelled to endure "the ultimate cruelty of thinking aloud under pressure...
...aerial photograph of Auschwitz extermination camp that takes the breath away with its immensity: mile on mile of barracks, a metropolis of death...