Word: breathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next, more sentimentality. To spell Judy in her nightly 90-minute appearances, there are song-and-dance interludes by her daughter Lorna, 14, and son Joey, 12. Neither has overpowering show-business potential, but the fans love them. Judy also gets a breather by coaxing such professionals in the audience as Duke Ellington or Bea Lillie onto the stage. Finally, and inevitably, comes Over the Rainbow. Some nights when she is too drained, it is more croaked than crooned. "Stay here and sing" someone cries amid the shrieks and bravos. "Don't ever go away!" Later, when she emerges from...
...Hard Breather. True, Russell's Celtics trail the Philadelphia 76ers by 7½ games in the race for the regular season Eastern Division championship. But last week they beat the 76ers for the fourth time in seven games this season, 113-112 -and there is no reason to suspect that they can't do it again in next month's postseason playoffs. True, Russell makes mistakes: in one game, he was fined for forgetting to call a required time out (thereby costing the TV sponsor a commercial); in another, he sent in a substitute without removing...
...marines, backed by tanks and a squadron of armored personnel carriers, each armed with a .50-cal. and two .30-cal. machine guns, ringed the rebel command post, the faded yellow-stucco Tinh Hoi Buddhist pagoda. Six blocks away, the foreign press, mostly American, was taking a breather on the cement terrace of the Press Center overlooking the Danang River...
...lacrosse team takes a breather from its tough Ivy League schedule when it faces Williams today at Williamstown...
...hockey team will got a breather when it plays the University of New Hampshire in Watson Rink tomorrow--and it's about time. Starting December 11, the young Icemen have lost six of seven games. But the losses, all by less than two goals, have come at the hands of the best team in Canada and four of the East's top five sextets...