Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American Communist Party (spring model '46) hopefully held its breath. On Friday, ex-Comrade Earl Browder crossed over into Soviet territory at the frontier station of Vainikkala, Finland. Then & there he vanished. What had happened to him? The C.P. hoped for the worst...
That evening Byrnes entertained at the small, stolid U.S. Embassy. A mere 300 guests crowded in. Molotov and Byrnes went into the garden for a breath of air and a bit of diplomatic shop talk. "The Soviets," said Byrnes with a sweeping gesture, "have a much better building. The British have a better building. [We] have to get along with this." Molotov nodded in sympathy...
...purveyor of Cupid's Breath (and 300 other pretty-smelling beauty products) is in racing for the sport, but she has made a business of it. Last year she plunked down a staggering $315.000 for ten fancy-bred yearlings; her two-year-olds copped just about every big stake for horses their age. She finished up the season as the nation's top money winner-with earnings of $589,170-even though she objected to her "little darlings" wearing blinkers because they didn't look pretty, and forbade jockeys to whip the darlings during a race...
Businessmen last week took a deep breath, and looked apprehensively at the first big batch of first quarter earnings. Then they relaxed somewhat. Despite the steel and coal strikes, rising costs and OPA ceilings, many a company had managed to earn a heart-warming amount of folding money. One big reason was that consumer spending for goods and services in the first quarter, according to a Commerce Department estimate, was at the record rate of $120 billion a year (1945 total: $103.6 billion...
While sportswriters (who had pegged him as "Lefty" Truman) held their breath, the President juggled the season's "first ball" in his right hand. At the last minute, he changed and lofted it out with his left (horseshoe-pitching...