Word: breathes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cuckolded husband broke into their bedroom on the dark midnight of Oct. 16, 1590, and slew the lovers, or had them slain. Later, convinced that the second child was not his, he shook the cradle so ferociously that the infant could not catch her breath and suffocated. Thereupon Gesualdo settled into a life of remorse and debauchery-he was so beset by evil "demons" that he had himself whipped daily-out of which came some of the world's most remarkable music...
Counterattack. Once they stopped to catch their breath, Muncey and Rhodes mounted a counterattack. Miss Pepsi...
Question of Death. The moment of high drama came almost at the end. Even the correspondents sucked in their breath as the Chicago Daily News's William McGaffin raised an issue never before put to a President in public. Many of Ike's old friends in Gettysburg, said McGaffin, although anxious to return him to office, "feel you have done enough for the nation, and they are afraid that you won't last out; they are afraid you won't live for another four years...
...Like a breath of clean air in a swamp comes your damning with faint praise of Adlai and the Democratic Party. I did not think that you could stop glamorizing Ike long enough to do this...
...with many of his British contemporaries acquired a faith in science as the universal nostrum. "Those were the days," recalls one of Nehru's English friends, "when Socialism was a pretty vague thing. Earnest young men at Oxford and Cambridge talked ethics, politics and economics in the same breath, without knowing exactly what they wanted...