Word: breather
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even if the legislators approve and all the pieces of the complex package hold together, the nation's biggest and most debt-ridden city will get merely another brief breather. The $2 billion will tide it over until December. Between then and the end of the fiscal year, next June, New York must beg or borrow yet another $3 billion or so. It can accomplish this only if it can market bonds to the nation's investors, who have lately viewed New York's paper as a pox. To regain their confidence and start putting its finances...
...Crimson, this was to be a breather game. After least weekend's near miss against an excellent Brown team, and with Princeton and Penn lorking in the near future, this was to be the game where Harvard could relax and coast to its eighth victory. Unfortunately, Brandels had other ideas...
...incredible Loughran breezed to a victory in the 1000, jumped out of the pool, dried off with a towel and then climbed on to the starting block for the 200 free. The Princeton coaches did stall the meet for 12 minutes however to give Loughran a breather...
...turning to the new socks, flashing bold and blaring ankles when they cross their legs. One student, Henry Griggs, currently taking a one-year breather from classes at Harvard, received a pair for Christmas with LOVE spelled across the toes. He showed them off in his Manhattan office, where he works as a taxi dispatcher. Says he: "The guys thought I was crazy...
...holidays were filled with footballs. The pro play-offs opened with victories for Minnesota, Los Angeles and Pittsburgh; in Oakland the Raiders scored the biggest win of all with a wacky 28-26 squeaker over the defending Super Bowl champion Dolphins. And when the pros were taking a breather, the college bowl games competed for the fan's attention. Almost unnoticed amidst all the hoopla, Federal District Court Judge William T. Sweigert handed down a decision in San Francisco that threw the National Football "League for a loss. It could upset the basic structure of labor-management relations...