Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Enemy Fights. During their two months' respite, when the Allied push across France had run out of breath and fuel, the German commanders succeeded in piecing together an estimated 70 divisions, ranging in quality from the Volksgrenadiere (only a cut or two above the home-guard Volkssturm) to the pampered Elite Guards outfits. The divisions, many of which are far under strength, average about 10,000 men each. Latest reports indicate that 50 to 55 divisions were holding the lines when the big Allied drive started last month, with 15 or 20 of the best backing them...
...Navy finally did get down to the business of beating each other's brains out, it certainly was a game of games. But the miracle that would have made it live up to the advance billing was AWOL. So was the upset that incurable hopefuls had held their breath for. When it was over, Army was still the best in the land and Navy was runner...
Undergraduates read the CRIMSON extra of December 17 with bated breath as the Army announced the call to active duty of the entire Enlisted Reserve Corps, most of which went into service early in the spring term...
...hordes of prewar tourists and expatriates who flocked from the U.S. to forgather on the banks of the Seine, a copy of the Herald was a breath from home, almost as good as meeting an old friend from Milwaukee at the Ritz Bar. To hundreds of young newspapermen, a year or two on the Herald staff meant a finishing course in elementary journalism and a lifetime of nostalgia. In city rooms and editorial sanctums all over the U.S. there are oldtimers ready at the drop of a Martini to reminisce about the Herald's drafty, dingy shop...
...rather baffled ("I can't pick my nose in public any more"). Equally, it is frank and heartfelt: "God," he says, "I hope it lasts." He understands his fans all the more sympathetically because he is still a celebrity hound himself. To meet Ronald Colman is still a breath-taking event...