Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...postponed. Snow stopped falling, the sky cleared, and a white winter sun shone down. At 12:51 o'clock on Jan. 20, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, his breath frosty in the frigid air, raised his right hand and pronounced the fateful words: "I do solemnly swear...
...despite the blinding snow and the treacherous ice and the marrow-freezing wind, Democratic hearts stayed high. "To hell with it all," cried one celebrator. "We've elected a President!" They had indeed-and Jack Kennedy moved relentlessly through his week, seemingly never pausing even for breath and totally unfazed by the soaring confusion. He was at all times the central and dominating figure of inauguration week...
...building a baby-walrus idea to rhinoceros proportions, the play fills up with flabby incident, labored joking, repetitious tricks; and the final scene has neither horror nor pathos enough. But Rhinoceros gives Broadway a breath of exhilarating insanity during a too-often imbecile season...
Gasping for breath, unable to eat or sleep, the 60-year-old man lay in a Scottish hospital moaning: "The end is near. The end is near." Doctors agreed; the patient was suffering from an intense, intractable form of bronchial asthma in which the contractions of the bronchial tubes become almost continuous and the lungs are starved for air. Antibiotics, Adrenalin, steroid hormones and oxygen had been given without effect. Finally, the University of Aberdeen's Dr. A. H. C. Sinclair-Gieben took over. His specialty: hypnosis...
...vocal tract. These vibrations can be converted into voiced sounds of speech in a normal manner-by use of the tongue, teeth and lips. But because no flow of air is required, the user can speak with the electronic larynx while exhaling, inhaling or holding his breath. The gadget comes in two models-low-pitched for men, higher-pitched for women...