Word: breath
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...House of Representatives that has only two fewer Republican members than it had after the 1994 election and a Senate that has two more Republican members than it did before the election. Knowing this, it is little wonder that the White House has not wasted its time or its breath on the standard blather about a Presidential mandate that usually follows a successful re-election campaign--they know, as we all know, that this election was not a mandate for Bill Clinton or the Democratic Party...
Take a deep breath. That's supposed to be one way to undermine a lie detector. Inhale deeply before any questions that make you nervous. Applied breathing during polygraph tests is an old trick Russian agents were taught, a small deception in a business that knows all the big ones...
...obtain a conviction for espionage, the government must prove that the information passed to a foreign power affects national security. To say it was classified is not enough. The defense can call in still more classified information. So right now the intelligence community is also taking a deep breath. "The one thing they really want is a confession, so they can avoid a trial," says a retired CIA official...
...never seems to come when I need it. The libraries are over-heated and my head becomes cluttered with esoteric facts and my own neurotic obsessions. The cold crisp air can clear my thoughts. Walking home, feeling the blood rise to my cheeks from the cold is a literal breath of fresh air. And I want the option that I can walk if I want to. Of course, Harvard can't control the problems of urban living. But if I am walking from the library to my dorm, from one Harvard property to another, and it's only a little...
...innocent aura coexists, in person, with a more knowing and world-weary affect (after all, she was raised by artist parents in a loft in Manhattan's SoHo district and has been acting professionally since age 6). In one breath she confidently states a sophisticated opinion of Juliet ("more one-dimensional than people might expect") and in the next worries about how her looks are discussed in the press...