Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Catching his breath in Tokyo, Reynolds said: "Now we are back in God's country-at least Americans run it." Americans still do not run the Amne Machin, which will continue to listen to its ode twice a month...
...Breath of Determination. Two old rivals had set a shining example for the 16 nations. For five months a French-Italian commission had talked over possibilities of gearing the French and Italian economies together as an efficient machine. Last week some details leaked out; they indicated far more progress than observers had expected...
...knowledgeable (a terrible word) that Huston was fascinated, and wanted to meet him.". . . How, then, is it that Mr. John Huston can say that he "was pretty certain" that I was Traven, when at one instant he says that Traven's suggestions fascinated him and with the same breath he declares "Groves made no worthwhile suggestions." Who is who now, and what is what...
...last week's showing, they could not be sure. Grain prices seemed to have found an uneasy bottom. Corn and wheat seesawed, ending the week about where they started. The stockmarket also caught its breath; trading was small and cautious. Traders, like most other businessmen, were waiting to see how severely the crash in commodities had shaken the boom. Last week, a few soft spots appeared...
Everything about The Pearl is done with tenderness and devotion, and is moving because of that. Now & then-during the breath-stopping dive for the pearl, the flight across the swamp, or a hair-raising moment when a scorpion crawls down a rope towards the baby-the picture comes fully and fiercely to life. But too often the film's makers confused genuine artistry (which requires a clear, tough sense of reality) with the woozily "artistic...