Word: breath
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...Commandment does not say one is never allowed to take the life of another; what it forbids is murder. From a sermon he delivered, Vaught also helped Clinton come to terms with his ambivalence about abortion. According to his son, Vaught argued that "the Hebrew word for life is 'breath,' and that life is connected to the moment when one is born and takes one's first breath." Above all, says Carl, a philosophy professor at Pennsylvania State University, the two men "met at the sacred place where people can encounter something ultimate, something that you just...
...anyone has the knowledge and nerve to pick his way through the minefield, Aspin is the one -- provided his health holds up. The Secretary, 54, suffers from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a heart malady causing shortness of breath and dizziness. Nine days after doctors installed a pacemaker in his chest, the irrepressible Pentagon chief was back in form last Saturday. Looking wan but energetic, the Defense Secretary showed his mastery of detail as he briefed reporters on the Administration's proposed 1994 defense budget of $263.4 billion, down $10 billion from the current year. The budget is the first installment in Clinton...
...wears pinstripe suits with suspenders and is addressed as "Mr. Ambassador." But Mickey Kantor is no diplomat. Take, for example, the way he described French negotiators who have fought to retain barriers to American farm exports: they have "held their breath and stomped their little feet," he said in an interview last week. Publicly, he has threatened retaliation against half a dozen "unfair" trade practices by the Europeans, the Japanese and others. And in response to foreign officials who sputter about his "bullying" tactics, he says with a tight smile and easy Tennessee drawl, "I think our message is getting...
House Committee Chair Lisa Marie Robinson '94 says Cabot's class of 1995 has given the house "second breath...
...volcano seemed to take a big breath, first sucking in air, then exploding," said a Colombian tourist who survived unhurt. Garcia and Menyailov died in an instant in the 600 degreesC blast of toxic gases. On the western rim of the cone, British geologist Geoffrey Brown and two Colombian colleagues were also incinerated as gas and heat spurted upward...