Word: breathes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Storms with winds up to 200 miles an hour sometimes come howling like banshees down off the highlands, often to be followed by unearthly silences. The antarctic has other tricks: when a man breathes its winter air, he not only can see but hear his breath, for as the frozen moisture drifts back across his face, its ice crystals break against his ears with the tinkling of hundreds of tiny bells. When the uncertain light of an overcast day is trapped beneath the clouds above and the snow below, everything between fills with a thick and milky film, devoid...
...probably given birth only three minutes earlier, was too dazed to attack him. She scurried into a retreat cage, and Thomas closed the door after her. Then he rushed with the baby to the zoo kitchen and removed the sac. He noticed that the baby was having difficulty breathing and began slapping her on the back. She caught her breath and lost it again. "I knew the strongest stimulant for respiration is carbon dioxide," Thomas said. "I started breathing into her mouth." He kept it up for 15 minutes. "I was all alone," he explains, "and knew that history...
...trying to kid with your talk of the self-restraint of the British in the face of petrol rationing? For the past few weeks the breath of every car owner of my acquaintance has reeked of petrol. "Oh, it's only a can in case of emergency; might have to visit the hospital, you know." In the interests of whatever is left of Anglo-American solidarity, I think you should warn any of your countrymen who are proposing to come over here to be very careful where they toss their cigar butts...
...called the town "hell with the lid lifted." Over a century later. Author John Gunther passed through, held his nose and described it (in Inside U.S.A.) as "one of the most shockingly ugly and filthy cities in the world." Last week much-abused Pittsburghers looked around, held their breath, and i) heard plans for a null $12 million skyscraper for their bustling Gateway Center; 2) watched the barricades go up for a 17-story. $7,000.000, metal-sheathed monolith for Pittsburgh's H. K. Porter Co.; 3) got the designs for a $15 million, 800-room, new Hilton Hotel...
...night long the city held its breath, while a few bursts of firing and the rumble of armor were heard. At daybreak a Hungarian sighed with relief: 'They did not shoot up the town again...