Word: breath
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...example, she will talk about being impressed with the Harvard community's "tolerance for experimentation," in the same breath as she will discuss her concerns about first-year advising...
...shirt that had Clinton smoking dope with two babes and Hillary hustling cookies," she says contemptuously. "Well, that did it. That really did it." Like many small-town Midwesterners, Seman is so polite she seems awkward when angry. "Look how upset I am," she says, visibly quaking. Catching her breath, she fires one last salvo: "Bush had four years, and now he talks about change? Hah! Just how dumb does he think...
...George V and George VI, Elizabeth's father, who assumed the crown after Edward VIII's abdication, were devoted family men who publicly upheld their roles as Defender of the Faith. The present Queen, in the 45th year of her marriage to Prince Philip, has never personally attracted a breath of scandal...
Gore, for example, went so far as to liken America today to his son lying lifeless in his father's arms with "the empty stare of death . . . waiting for a second breath of life." Moving briskly from the pathetic to the political, Gore went on, "Our democracy is lying in the gutter, waiting for us to give it a second breath of life...
Shameful nonsense. Nonsense because no one can possibly look at America today and genuinely see a people, like little Albert, "limp and still, without breath or pulse." Shameful because the analogy is meant to exploit our sympathy for father Gore's pain to convince us that candidate Gore harbors equally deep feelings for the health of America. If he does, he is a lousy father. If he does not, he is a dissimulating politician...