Word: breathers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major turning point in the cold war. Given all the bitter memories of Communist deceit and broken pledges, all the past "peace offensives" that only served to aggravate the battle, no one can discount the possibility that the test ban agreement will only serve to give the Russians a breather in their struggle with the West, to be resumed later with even more ferocity. Still, this event seems different, and the evidence points to a more hopeful interpretation...
...Brown meet traditionally provides a breather before Yale, but the varsity hardly had to breathe deeply to beat the weak Brown squad...
Today few writers can follow the scientists into their increasingly complicated jungles, and what they find does not support good storytelling. Science fiction will have to take a breather until neutrinos, wave mechanics and information theory grow familiar enough to be clothed in human terms...
...highly regarded ace, Ramanathan Krishnan, Osuna powdered the baseline with his drives, showed a baffling array of skittering slices; at times, he even employed some gamesmanship of his own, scooting catlike around a backhand to take it on his forehand. Krishnan carried the match to five sets, got a breather when the match was interrupted in the fourth set because of darkness. But that was it. Next day Osuna polished him off, then teamed with No. 2 Mexican Antonio Palafox to win the doubles to lead the jubilant squad to a 5-0 runaway...
...contest of the season. It gives the luckless and virtually winless Bruins a chance to salvage what has been a miserable season even for Brown, which has won just six games in four years of trying. For Harvard, the 1:30 p.m. contest has traditionally been that week-end breather between princeton and Yale...