Word: breathe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Saber & Specter. Obviously, any breath of outside air is, in China's present stage, like too much oxygen. Adult Russians have known nothing but a Communist society for the past 40 years; among educated Chinese, the memory of the atmosphere and another kind of thought is only nine years old. On such people, Mao has to cinch the Marxist straitjacket tighter. He is less free to adopt the Russians' confident approach that "peaceful competition" will lead to ultimate Communist triumph. In the classic fashion of young dictatorships, Red China must rely on "the threat from abroad...
Under the Stars. Occasionally, late at night, Wayne Powers would take a breath of fresh air at his doorstep. But mostly he stayed quietly indoors, peeping from behind the curtain, taking care of his pet rabbits, tending the children-Dorothy, Jimmy, Douglas, Harry, Freddy. In the birth certificates, Yvette listed the children's father as "unknown." The neighbors viewed the strange union with Gallic tolerance and were closemouthed with strangers. Three times in the 14 years French police came, looking for "a missing American soldier." Each time Yvette hid Wayne in a cubbyhole under the stairs. Back in Chillicothe...
...points better than Johnson's own world-record 7,985. The Russians shortened the interval between events from half an hour to 20 minutes, but it bothered Rafe not a bit. "I like the interval even shorter," he said, "only about five or ten minutes to catch my breath." With the event half over...
...singled out by the purgers was Adventures of a Monkey, the story of a marmoset that escapes from a zoo hit by a fascist bomb, awkwardly adapts to the Soviet society on the outside, at one point decides: "Oh, dear, it was silly to leave the zoo. You could breath more peacefully in the cage...
...weekends as a jazz drummer), had a normal birth but looked alarmingly blue and immediately needed oxygen. Still blue when he went home, he got bluer when he cried. Kent grew normally, but whenever he tried to play tag with other youngsters, he turned blue and gasped for breath. When he was five, doctors at the Grace-New Haven Community Hospital found that his heart had only one ventricle (lower chamber). The result was that freshly oxygenated blood from the lungs was mixed in this chamber with used venous blood and pumped both ways-some back to the lungs, some...