Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Marbury v. Madison 15 years later, Chief Justice John Marshall, like Coke unarmed except for the force of law, determined the right of judicial review over legislative decision, gave breath and blood to the American precedent as "a Government of laws and not of men." So it was also that at the testing time of the Republic. Abraham Lincoln was a man who knew two basic books: the Bible and Blackstone's commentaries...
...parents' possessive dullness, 2) the child's imagination and romantic thirst for life, brought into play for the first time when the madman's own imagination reaches out in sympathy and need. Conventionally, this ominous encounter ends well after a long spell of breath-holding on the part of the reader as well as the parents. But its bitterly ironic aftertaste lies in the fact that the parents' agony is not enough to induce forgiveness for their failure to know their own child. ¶Tho' the Pleasant Life Is Dancing Round tries to show...
...unanimously re-elected President of Yugoslavia for a third term of four years. In a speech before Parliament, the 65-year-old Tito tried hard to stay on his tightrope between East and West; he followed the Soviet line on ending nuclear bomb tests, and, in the next breath, praised the U.S. for the economic and military aid it has sent to Yugoslavia...
...describe the state of high nervous tension in which such a bust is done, Epstein tells how he first roughs in the shape with clay, moves in to observe the eyes including "the exact curve of the under-lid," defines the nostrils so that they seem to quiver with breath, moves on to the lips, cheeks and finally the shoulders and back until he feels "a trembling eagerness of life pulsate through the work...
...Broadway theater grown intellectually a little stuffy, Sahl is a kind of nice fresh breath of carbon monoxide. Beyond talking miles too long (he should never stray beyond nightclub limits), his current great faults are too much smugness and too little showmanship. He could be more outrageous if he were less obviously pleased with his manner and his mission, if he did not wait for laughs and even join in them. The danger with anybody as much commentator as jokester is that the mocking will become the messianic; already there is an atmosphere in the audience of followers rather than...