Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Almost before catching his breath in Havana, Venezuela's exiled President Romulo Gallegos had begun dishing out the blame for his downfall (TIME, Dec. 13). His most sensational charge involved "the notorious presence" of a foreign military attache at a Caracas barracks during the army uprising...
...Dean spoke again of the College and how there would always be a place for Vag in the local scene. The Dean suggested Vag fill out a petition, but warned him in the same breath that it would be useless. He again mentioned tradition...
...notable acknowledgment: at Cairo in 1943, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill promised the Generalissimo to crush Japan and restore all Chinese territory lost in half a century of struggle with the Japanese. Formally, China became one of the "Big Five." When the war ended, China drew a long breath and turned to reconstruction. The spearhead of Chiang's planned reconstruction of China was Manchuria, with its coal and iron and factories. At the last moment, it was snatched from China's hand...
...with leaders in London and Paris last week produced identically worded hopes that the U.S. would not "throw good money after bad" in China. Dr. J. H. van Roijen of The Netherlands delegation to U.N. hoped that no additional efforts would be made to save China. In the next breath, he went on to express the fear that if China went Communist all other Asiatic countries would sooner or later follow suit. "In Indonesia the repercussions would be disastrous," he said...
...tetraethyl-thiuram-disulfide; they were supposed to be good for intestinal worms. To his surprise, Dr. Jacobsen found that any form of alcohol revolted him. When he sipped even a small glass of beer, his face got red, his heart started to pound and he had trouble getting his breath...