Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meter freestyle. California's lanky Lance Larson. 19. slammed into the wall like a torpedo and seemed to touch out Australia's handsome John Devitt, 23. the world record holder. Still gasping for breath, Devitt congratulated Larson and was accepting condolences from Aussie teammates when he learned he had won after all. Though the timers all put Larson ahead, two of the three judges claimed they saw Devitt's hand slap the wall first. Since the judges' decision is what counts, the victory went to the Aussie. To make the facts jibe with their opinions, officials...
...ditty collection can touch Tell Laura I Love Her (RCA Victor), a best-selling ballad set in the flaming wreckage of a stock car. Tommy, the dying driver, has entered the race to win money to buy a wedding ring; he gasps out the hit tune with his dying breath and departs for heaven...
...came Gloomy Sunday. "In death I'm caressing you," mourned a lonely lover, "with the last breath of my soul I'll be blessing you." Song pluggers boasted that the ditty gave a big boost to suicide rates all over the world, particularly along the blue Danube, where students were said to have jumped in in droves...
...U.C.L.A. practice field, for up to six hours at a stretch. In April, under the anxious eye of U.C.L.A. Track Coach Ducky Drake, he tried sprint starts. But Johnson and his coach were most afraid of back-wrench ing jumps. At last, in late spring, Johnson took a deep breath and started down the pole-vault runway. He cleared the bar-and plummeted into the sawdust without a twinge. Johnson was back on the track...
...began to recite the once-obligatory eulogies to "the great agricultural leap" was harshly reminded by one of his colleagues that, after all, China's Communists were "not like the legendary monkey god, Sun Wun Kung, who could pull out one of his hairs and with a breath create an army." More bluntly yet, the Peking People's Daily unprecedentedly admitted the possibility of famine "in certain areas of the country." In face of the hunger that stalks mainland China for the third straight year, even Red China's own propagandists could no longer manage to blink...