Word: breathes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old, flipper-footed food faddist who trains on seaweed jelly and experiments with hypnotism, churned 440 yds. at the New-South Wales swimming championships in a world record 4:27.1, passed the 400-meter mark on the way in a world record 4:25.9. When he caught his breath. Rose announced that he would visit the U.S. in the spring "to look around some universities," but admitted that Yale's ubiquitous swimming coach, Bob Kiphuth, had already all but sold him on the beauties of New Haven...
Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground . . . Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow? Whose breath blew out the light within this brain...
...harder he works, the more he eats and the rounder he gets), and now, with no time to waste on clothes-buying, he tried to stuff himself back into his prewar civvies. For months, until Helen Knowland finally took charge and ordered him some new suits, Washington held its breath in anticipation of the occasion when California's young Republican Senator William Fife Knowland would literally bust his britches...
...What's halitosis?" interrupted Gerard Lambert, the company's general manager. "Oh, that is the medical term for bad breath," said the employee...
...Today, thanks to impish Gerard Barnes Lambert, the world is full of youngsters to whom the pre-halitosis world must seem as remote as that of Chaucer's Wife of Bath. Soon, only toothless oldsters will remain to tell of a time when every bridesmaid took her breath in her stride and no man, wanting the truth, went to a child...