Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with the Conservatives.) Cynthia Ledsham went to Coventry to record the crisis' effect on a single industrial community. Constance Lailey, who had wired queries to the bureau's stringers in the blacked-out cities throughout Britain, requeried the main ones by telephone. June Rose took a deep breath and vanished into the cold of London's East End to see what the crisis meant to the people living there...
Anna Louise caught her propagandist's breath. "Amazing . . . unforgettable remark," she wrote; "such a serene assurance of the bright future of mankind...
...manners and morals change. Today, the public expects damn and not darn when the hero mans damn. And the Johnson Office, carrying forward the late Hays Office white mantle of purity, has eased up along the line, permitting an occasional breath of life to creep into a picture. Unfortunately, Girl Scouts and ex-ward bosses have crawled back into the censorship field and take pot shots at anything coming out of Hollywood in a two piece bathing suit. Significantly, the old adage about the cure being worse than the disease applies here. Witness "Duel in the Sun." Selnick's horse...
...Senator's patronage pressures, McKellar bias was too much even for his anti-Lilienthal associates. But, the more recent statements of Republican Senators Bridges, Wherry and Moore are all the more dangerous for their pious disavowal of McKellar's prejudiced position while, in the same breath, they say that they will oppose Lilienthal because it would be unwise to approve a man on whose character and ability doubt has been east. They would evidently like the country to think that their stand is one of studied fair-mindedness rather than what it obviously is: a more subtle denunciation...
...Breath. From the Gulf and from Canada, warm and icy air rushed together to form the whirling center of a new storm. Over Abilene, Tex. the clouds turned copper with dust, while a steely blue frost wandered across the Little Big Horn. As the languid, wet air swirled above the cold, it began to generate wind, sleet, thunder and lightning. One bolt killed a woman in Wever, Iowa in the midst of a driving blizzard. At Whittemore, 230 miles away, a bridal couple was unhappily snowbound in a house with 50 wedding guests...