Word: breathe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slipping into recession, President Eisenhower described the whole thing as "a breather.'! Writing out a speech for delivery this week to the American Management Association in Manhattan, Ike noted that the rate of decline was slowing down, reported his verdict on the economy: "We have about caught our breath...
...koans -short problems without logical solutions, set by the individual's Zen master and designed to wrench the mind free of ordinary thinking. (Sample koan: "A monk asked. 'Who is Buddha?' The master answered, 'Three pounds of flax.' ") Other meditation is devoted to breath control, plus a kind of concentration on nothingness and what Ruth Sasaki describes as "handling one's mind...
...reentry, the space pilot will have his pressure suit inflated. In relaxed, straightaway flight, he will be able to deflate his suit, open his visor and rely on cabin air. The air will be filtered, probably through lithium hydride, to remove carbon dioxide and excess water vapor from breath and sweat. It will also be cooled and deodorized...
...Breath for Power. The U.S. team produced only one winner: Featherweight Isaac Berger. The little (5 ft. 2 in., 131 Ibs.) Israeli immigrant likes to think that the breath control he learned as a synagogue cantor has given him extra power. He hoisted a total of 804⅓ lbs. for a new world record. The other U.S. squad members seemed so far from shape that the rest of the scheduled matches promised to be Russian pushovers. Bantamweight (class limit: 123½ Ibs.) Charles Vinci, a squat Ohio steelworker who has been recently unemployed, had been forced to trade valuable training...
...Educated Breath. In Memphis, a motorist was asked by a cop if he would submit to a drunkometer test, pulled himself together, said, "Yes, I'm a college graduate...