Word: breathing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Runner from the East. Inside the church, Frankfurt's mayor received relay runners with greetings from all parts of occupied Germany. One had come all the way from Berlin, but he was not even out of breath. The Russians had forbidden him to run through the streets in their sector; so he had taken the subway to the airport and flown the rest...
Open Letter. Nanking, Paris, London, Berlin, Moscow, New York newspapers blazoned the story that Russia had accepted a U.S. bid to talk about their differences. For hours, while almost no one analyzed the Smith-Molotov texts, the whole world felt a springlike breath of hope. The magic word "peace" appeared in headlines. People saw a melting of the frozen front of the cold war. Tom Dewey, electioneering in Oregon, hailed it as "the best news since V-J day if they [the Russians] mean...
Bumpy Air. U.S. airlines were feeling the hot breath of foreign competition in transatlantic aviation. In the first six months of 1947, American Overseas, Pan American Airways and T.W.A. carried 75.4% of all passengers. In the second half, CAB announced, their share was down to 71.2%. For both U.S. and foreign lines, traffic volume was well up: the total of 114,128 passengers was an increase of 42.5% over 1947's first half...
...Ultimate Weapon. Recovering its breath this week, the nation wondered: Was this kind of thing going to happen every few years? Strikes in some indus tries could be endured. But a railway strike was unendurable. What had happened to the "model" Railway Labor Act of 1926 which was supposed to relieve the country of such crises?* This was the fourth time since 1941 that the machinery of the act had collapsed...
...grey slacks, settles down to skim official reports, read history, or clip newspapers for his scrapbooks, tries to be in bed by 9 o'clock. He limits his drinking to one whiskey & soda before dinner, smokes only denicotinized cigars. In 1932, he was bothered by shortness of breath and pounding of his heart under exertion. Doctors diagnosed it as a "slow heart," but nothing organically wrong. They prescribed digitalis (which he has taken ever since). The ailment has never recurred. For recreation, he likes to play gin rummy or backgammon with his wife, swims (sidestroke) twice a week...