Word: breather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with dumbbells, but then and now the fact is that politics shapes the daily life of every U.S. citizen; politics is indeed "not of good only, but of all." Last week, with the 1958 elections well in the past, the U.S. might have been expected to take a political breather. Not so. People and politicians were rereading the returns and trying to follow them -according to their own interpretations. A liberal Republican said he and those like him should show their muscles ; a forgotten Republican did handsprings trying to trip up an old enemy. But the most exciting activities were...
Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci and Senator John F. Kennedy '40 shared a "real Italian dinner" last night in a crowded East Cambridge restaurant. The meal served as a breather in the Senator's hurried campaign tour of Cambridge yesterday. On the tour, Kennedy shook hands with thousands of voters, and visited City Hall...
Gaunt and pale from recurrent flu attacks and daily overwork, President Arturo Frondizi battled his way through the worst crisis in his regime's troubled three months of life. He won a breather last week mainly because the going got rough enough to alarm even the Peronistas who had started all the trouble...
...million of it for research) in the fiscal year ended June 30, the House voted $219 million for NIH, while the Senate's bill called for an Everest ascent to $321 million. At week's end House-Senate conferees were deadlocked, decided to take a two-week breather. But if the Senate prevailed over the House-even so far as to win a split-the-difference agreement -the nation's medical research outlays would be starting up the Himalayan curve recommended by Stanhope Bayne-Jones and his colleagues...
Last winter, as the U.S. was 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...