Word: breather
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with dignity, of what he saw as a prisoner in various German concentration camps; and Briton F. Spencer Chap man's The Jungle Is Neutral, an expertly written story of his life as a guerrilla soldier in Japanese-held Malaya. Detractors and worshipers of F.D.R. took a relative breather. The opening of most of his personal papers to researchers next March probably meant an approaching rain of biographical books: John Gunther's inside F.D.R. had already been announced. But only the President's wife and his secretary had much to add in 1949. In F.D.R., My Boss...
...asking "After Davidson-Smith?" hit at the breather games on West Point's comparatively soft schedule. Making capital of West Point's unwillingness to play...
Mangoes & Chanel No. 5. The little medieval touch has given the new regime a valuable breather. Some of the country's wounds are healing fast. In Sontay, once a thriving town of 6,000 in the Red River delta, only seven people and one church were left when the French took it from the Communists last November. When I visited Sontay last month, it was largely rebuilt, 5,000 of its people had returned, and in its bustling market, cheerful, slim-hipped women were buying everything from mangoes to Chanel...
Such well-intentioned enthusiasts as Teitgen tried to march too fast. This was just what the sponsors of the Strasbourg movement had feared might happen. Before he left for a breather at Nice, Churchill himself championed the go-slow view. "We must not attempt on our present electoral basis," he said, "to challenge the powers that belong to the duly constituted national parliaments founded directly upon universal suffrage. Such a course would be premature...I will not prejudge the work of the committee (drafting unification plans), but I hope they will remember Napoleon's saying 'A constitution must...
...Cornell and Army will be tops in the East," stated Valpey, and he gave three reasons for his choice: 1) both teams have large numbers of returning lettermen; 2) their schedules allow for three "breather" games, contests in which the coaches may regroup and experiment; and 3) Cornell has tremendous team speed and Army has depth and considerable speed...