Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exactly eight days-between the Paris Conference's end and the convening of the U.N.'s General Assembly in New York-the world had a chance to draw breath, to look both backward & forward along the rough road it was traveling. The peacemakers and world rebuilders were, most of them, in transit (see below). The world's troubles rode with them every mile...
...alarmed Mohandas K. Gandhi offered advice to the women which, for a vegetarian, seemed surprising: the only way they could avoid dishonor, he said, was to bite their tongues or hold their breath until they died.* If that would not work, he snapped, let them take poison. He was feeling crotchety, anyway, and "thoroughly ashamed" of an error he had made in a letter, calling the Moslem League "the authoritative representative" (of an overwhelming majority of Indian Moslems), instead of "the most authoritative representative." Peevishly, he muttered that a man who made such mistakes probably would not live...
...nothing but screaming. It's almost unexplainable the way a crowd will quiet down and listen to Joe and his boys. I'll bet they'd listen for an hour without making a noise if they didn't have to let their breath out now and then. They're the greatest musical group I've heard in the last ten years...
Present piles (at Oak Ridge, Hanford and Chicago) are kept cool, but power piles will run at high temperature. Among the reacting uranium rods of a power pile will circulate a chemically inert gas, hot as a dragon's breath, deadly with radioactivity. This will heat a conventional boiler, yielding high-pressure steam, which, the scientists hope, will not be too radioactive to use in a turbine...
Bachelors of Arts (Out of Course), as of the Class of 1946: Melvin Breath Casey, Casimir de Rham Jr., Paul Martin Goldhill, William John Dean Kennedy, Marshall McKibben Kincaid, Cloyd Laporte Jr., Robert Leventall, John Stanley McCormick Jr., Joseph Menuel Paniello, John Ivan Simon, John Eliot Thayer...