Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Young King George VI drew a deep breath and went on, "We have been forced into a conflict, for we are called, with our allies, to meet the challenge of a principle which, if it were to prevail, would be fatal to any civilized order in the world...
...political measure Garner is a good-natured loblolling cowhand who, through the political hocus-pocus that nowadays passes for government, has been drawing his breath, cigar and salary for seven years, and saying nothing, because he knows nothing, while twelve million people have had the opportunity, on relief, to become inured to the blessings of government by "the common people...
There was a lot more, but no one listened. Then the room was still. Lewis finished. Mary Norton said mechanically: "I thank you for your very fine contribution to this meeting." (Next day, when she caught her breath, Mrs. Norton said she was "displeased" with Mr. Lewis' statement...
Last week Civil Aeronautics Authority's crash board issued a post-mortem (in advance of official reports): a rag in the air intake had choked off the Q.E.D.'s breath. Crash Board Member Carl B. Allen hastened to add that sabotage was out of the question because no saboteur could so plant a rag as to gum the works at a crucial moment. How it got there remained any man's guess. Some guesses: 1) the propeller whisked it off the ground into the intake; 2) a careless grease-monkey left it near the intake; 3) sabotage...
...playing in his first British tournament. After finishing his last round in 73 for a 72-hole total of 292, it looked as if an American would once again win the Open. But while Johnny Bulla fidgeted in the clubhouse and 5,000 Britons held their breath, Richard Burton, a Cheshire pro, ambled up to his ball on the 18th green, sank a long putt for a birdie 3 and a 71 that beat Bulla by two strokes...