Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Frankie, like Teammates Norm Standlee and Bruno Banducci, is an alumnus of Stanford's famed 1940 "wow boys," who went to the Rose Bowl and won. In those days, West Coasters brazenly mentioned him in the same breath with the great Sammy Baugh, prince of passers. But Frankie joined the Navy, got married, and didn't fool much with football until two years ago. Now he is firing his left-handed passes as accurately as the great right-handed Sammy. So far this season, Albert has completed 108 passes in 180 attempts, an average of .600. Average gain...
...Never Out of Breath." Britons in all walks of life learned to trust Temple for the same reason that church leaders of many creeds and countries did: everyone could be sure that whatever he proposed was based on carefully pondered Christian principle. He worked, preached and traveled on a scale that resembled John Wesley. The steady flow of his public meetings and services, of his private counsel and consolation, never let up. "It was all very breathless," said a colleague, "but he was never out of breath...
...again on their second honeymoon, fly their new mates, and let fly (between endearments) at each other, once seemed as faintly decadent as chain-smoking. In the Bankhead version, it is as strenuous as football. Miss Bankhead, between moments of dreamy ladylikeness during which she is probably catching her breath, coils, snarls, pounces, crunches her lines, turns throbbing baritone, and in general portrays what appears to be the love of Mt. Vesuvius for a mortal...
Strom, then 44, and catching his breath for the moment, had time for other matters, particularly pretty Jean Crouch, 21-year-old daughter of an old family friend. He appointed her "Miss South Carolina," to preside over Charleston's Azalea Festival; he brought her to the mansion to serve as his personal secretary. One day he dictated to her: "My darling Jean . . . Loving you as much as I do ... I want you to be my wife without too much delay . . ." She retired to the next room and typed out her acceptance...
Doctors never get rich by treating silicosis. A poor man's disease, silicosis hits miners and other workers in dusty places. In remote mining valleys, in slums near dust-ridden factories, the victims drag out their lives, struggling for each breath. Silicosis is by no means rare. It causes more than 20% of the "natural deaths" among the anthracite miners of Pennsylvania. In eight hard-coal counties, there are 1,000 new cases a year. But little has been done thus far to check or cure the disease...