Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), world's biggest oil company, was the natural leader of the group; as Standard's internationally minded president, Eugene Holman, was the one who had a big hand in drafting the breath-taking plans. Jersey Standard and its partners were going to spend upwards of $300,000,000 in the stormy Middle East to bring...
...emitting only an occasional soft "groo," plaintively yodeling during the mating season, but never barking. Last week, however, in London's Trinity Hall, at the annual show of the British Basenji Club, a barkless Basenji barked. It was the end of 6,000 years of canine taciturnity. "My breath simply went," gasped Acting Club Secretary Veronica Tudor Williams. "Quite a bombshell," muttered the permanent secretary...
...effort took her last breath, and as she died Lady Tichborne uttered a great curse. Unless each year, on Lady Day, the Tichbornes gave to every adult in the village one gallon of flour, and to every child one half-gallon, the manor house would crumble; there would be a generation of seven sons, a generation of seven daughters, and then the Tichborne name would...
...first, I was afraid he'd start dancing me over the furniture. A graceful glide got me functioning. But then I got an attack of nerves. We twirled, or rather we tried, but my knees buckled. They just weren't up to it. I caught my breath as he swung me again. Then, I sort of stiffened up like a cold cod. Then, I almost bit my tongue and then, thank goodness, the music stopped...
Leaders throughout the House hoop race, Leverett's five will feel the hot breath of the Lowell-eight straight--quintet on their necks when they take the floor tonight against last-place Kirkland. Closely matched Winthrop and Dunster will square off at 7 o'clock to begin the evening's play...