Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Students at Ava, Ill.'s Trico Consolidated High School were driving teachers wild by doing "red outs." They knelt, took a deep breath, put one thumb in their mouths, and then blew (without actually exhaling) until they fainted...
...that night, the Portland's paddle wheels thrashed vainly as giant seas battered her superstructure, drove her southward before the raging northeast wind. Elsewhere, 141 ships foundered. In the bitter cold and driving snow, men could not see across a ship's deck, had trouble getting their breath...
...half-learned the lesson of 1948. Diagnosing the election, Scott declared: "The public has accepted the intervention of government in its daily life . . . Ours is a spiritual job of moving the minds of people-not just a mechanical job of moving people to the polls." Then, in the next breath, he added: "In the days to come, we've got to run up the storm signals . . . We have got to convince the people that we were right in warning against regimentation and state socialism...
When redheaded Dave Beck took office, the gusty breath of all this excitement still hung in the air. The headsaws of lumber mills screamed along almost every lake and waterway. Loggers, fishermen, sailors and bums lounged by the hundreds beside the Skidroad's missions, hash joints and flophouses. Seattle's tough cops still took pride in using force sufficient to make an arrest, and dragged in many a prisoner by the heels...
Experimenters have used radioactive carbon to follow the fat through the veins of rats, and have detected it on their breath as fast as they could collect breath samples. Unfortunately, rats have been the only successful subjects. Humans who got the shots only developed a fever and had to be hospitalized...