Word: breather
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...week's Democratic primaries offered a breather in the schedule after a rapid-fire series of industrial state contests ending last week in Indiana and Ohio and pointing the way toward contests in Oregon next week and California in early June...
During the meet, Rainey was given an occasional breather when the men's team or the women's JV squad was on the track...
...rose. Yet at the end of the decade West Germany was enjoying a massive trade surplus and manageable inflation. Britain and Italy, meanwhile, languished under trade deficits and double-digit inflation. Sir James Goldsmith, the British financier, witnessed the process firsthand. Warns he: "Like drugs, devaluation gives you a breather, a small kick. Then it becomes an inflationary merry-go-round to , hell." Only when Britain began pumping large amounts of North Sea oil in the late 1970s did its fortunes improve...
...dinner specials are the best introduction to Portuguese dining. Most seafood dishes consist of salty slabs of off-white flesh with tangy blobs of lemon sliding across the top and flanks of the deceased H2O breather. But the Casa's seafood is served up as a steamy, eye-tingling gumbo of rice and hors d'oeuvres-size bits of fish, mussels, shrimp or clams, all wrapped up in a deliciously meaty, spicy sauce which takes away the nasty oceanic tang that clings to most fish...
...seat three down from me and rolls to the floor. Another figure is upon him at once panching, grabbing and kicking. Pretty soon, 15 people are involved to some degree in the emerging mayhem. A cop on duty finally convinces the contenders in the crowd to take a breather and watch the movie. The original two combatants are escorted...