Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Seat. Now a breath of hope stirs Guatemala. The successful revolt in El Salvador excited all Central America (TIME, May 22). There, the U.S. State Department did not intervene (as many expected) to checkmate a people's rebellion. Even in terrorized Guatemala, the news reached the people, made them wonder whether their Dictator also was vulnerable...
Working on their own H-hour, the nation's publishers flooded bookstores with shelves of new map books. Mostly these were the new-style maps, with breath-taking views of the world, maps on which the U.S. appeared like a stretched-out tigerskin rug, on which Australia might be as compressed as a frankfurter, or on which Winnipeg or Imphal suddenly showed up as the center of the world. These were maps of global war, on which menacing arrows pointed unerringly at vital targets; maps of the air age, in which distances were measured not in miles...
...that one or two of the rooms are slightly crowded. We wouldn't know, but when we asked Johnny Pugh what he was doing on the ground outside the window of D-12 Sunday evening, he informed us that all of his roommates had taken a deep breath at the same time. They're working on a timing plan which will enable them to stay in the room and breathe at the same time. Meanwhile Al Zadnichek (for the first time since he arrived) is happy that he's 180th in our alphabetical listing. He can choose...
...sniffing of the cannon's scented breath...
...battle of War Bonnet Gorge, for which Cody was given the Congressional Medal of Honor, is the most notable sequence: Filmed on the scene of the original battle, it is made vivid and real by the brilliance of technicolor which gives breath-taking color to the outdoor scenes. Charging from either end of a gorge, the soldiers and Indians meet in the shallow water of the stream bed. The battle which ensues is terrific in its ferocity. So much water is splashed that the lens of the camera gets wet--it really does--you can see the drops running down...