Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Affirmative Good. World Banker Black, who has lent $3.1 billion to 45 nations since World War II, admitted that the boom has left the free world "short of breath" (see The Shortage of Money). Yet, he declared, "today it is broadly true that the opportunity to attract foreign private capital is there for those nations which have the will and courage to grasp...
Mary Stuart offers no end of bravura and brag, of stomp and stealth, as the play rushes from one emotional exclamation point to another. Since the characters never really draw human breath, they never provide the thrills born of real concern. Mary Stuart has clang without resonance, but it is old-fashioned enough to seem novel, and good enough of its kind to be enjoyed...
...airports that are crowded, inconvenient and sometimes dangerous even for today's DC-75. The jets will weigh 300,000 Ibs. fully loaded, v. 150,000 Ibs. for the largest piston-engine airliner now in use, making most present runways too short for safety, and the hot breath of jet-engine exhausts will melt many runway and taxi-strip surfaces. Moreover, since six jetliners arriving close together will disembark as many passengers as an ocean liner, the passenger, baggage and ticketing jams of today will pale beside tomorrow...
...Seat. In Oklahoma City, after suspected Shoplifter Elmo Dolling Jr. eluded two store clerks, raced two blocks by foot and dashed into an office building for refuge, he dropped into a chair, exhausted and out of breath, discovered Loo late that he was sitting in the sheriff's office interrogation room...
...caused a general melting fudge of a sticky, syrupy, irresistible fluid, impossible for such as us: raw from the harsh Welsh backward blacknesses." To his "wide-open-beaked" poetry readings all over the U.S.. Dylan gave "the concentrated artillery of his flesh and blood, and, above all, his breath. I used to come in late and hear, through the mikes, the breath-straining panting . . . booming blue thunder into the teenagers' delighted bras and briefs. And I thought, Jesus, why doesn't he pipe down...