Word: breath
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...breath of the loo last week made a vast oven of north India, sending aloft choking clouds of dust that turned skies the color of tarnished brass. Delicate animals at New Delhi's zoo were shipped off to the mountains to beat the heat, and hordes of humans had the same idea; many queued up all night at railway ticket offices to buy seats for the few train coaches that were air-conditioned. City employees demonstrated angrily for khuskhus curtains-spongy grass screens that cool the air when sprayed with water -for their office windows; municipal officials...
Fraternal Grafts. Latvian-born son of an engineer father and a dental surgeon mother, John Riteris, 24, was found to have kidney disease while in the Army, was discharged and went home to Milwaukee. Easily tired, always short of breath, he developed severe high blood pressure, a failing and enormously enlarged heart, "dropsy" and anemia. When his 6-ft. frame was down to 98 Ibs., doctors despaired of saving...
...Just before bending down for the bar, I look up. That relaxes my back. I get the feeling that my direction is up. Then I grip the bar and take a deep breath and arch my back. Then I feel in the mood. I feel like a pouter pigeon. When I feel tension on my lower back, I rock backward, and the weight comes up automatically. I think of the steps, not the weight. Thinking of the weight would unnerve...
Bill Kinkaid himself thinks that if he has a secret, it must have to do with breath control. A lean, athletic man, he works out on a chinning bar and punching bag in his apartment, finds that his control is always best after a summer of swimming. In his youth, Kinkaid was a champion swimmer in Honolulu, where his Presbyterian minister father was assigned, but he gave up an athletic career for music, studied with the late great Flutist Georges Barrère. He understudied Barrère in the New York Symphony when he was only 17, graduated...
...where it was going, last week showed signs of making up its mind. The deciding factor was the U.S. consumer, who has not shared the gloom that enshrouds many businessmen. Said the Federal Reserve Bank of New York in its business review: "Consumer purchasing, in particular, brought a breath of springtime to businessmen...