Word: breathes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Striding three paces forward from the swinging central doors of the House of Representatives chamber, Doorkeeper William M. ("Fishbait") Miller sucked breath and bellowed the call that has been his prerogative for eight congressional sessions. Cried Mississippian Miller: "Mistuh Speakuh, the President of the United States!" A packed chamber's applause pealed out as Dwight Eisenhower, following Doorkeeper Miller and followed himself by an escort of four Senators and two Representatives, made his smiling way down the aisle to the House well...
...mean, don't you wonder where it's getting you? Don't you feel, sometimes, that life is passing you by, just sitting here day-after day and pecking away and getting nowhere?" Prometheus paused to take a breath. "Don't you wonder, sometimes, if you couldn't make some fuller use of your capabilities...
Drunkometers and other gizmos favored by highway police say that a man is drunk if his breath or blood shows a certain concentration of alcohol. But some men and women get reeling drunk on a couple of drinks while others can swig a fifth and not show it. Also, a man who has been putting away half a dozen highballs every evening for years without batting an eyelash may suddenly find himself getting the staggers after one cocktail...
Gasping Tractors. One hundred miles from the Pole, the going got worse. The altitude, 11,000 ft., made the faithful tractors gasp for breath, and the snow got so soft that they often sank deeply into it and had to be manhandled out. Once the unemotional Hillary radioed: "I thought at one time that this might be the end of the line for the tractor train." But the tractors made it, and Hillary would have been all right, of course, if they had not. He was carrying emergency gear and supplies for foot travel to the U.S. base...
...whom were sure that Callas was simply losing her voice. Said the Paese Sera: "Let's be truthful. She started badly and got worse. Her voice appears threatened by changes in timbre and variations in the lower registers. In the high registers Callas is an acrobat who lacks breath...