Word: breathlessly
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...corner; and Cole Porter's score, one of his poorest, is hampered by the addition of even worse numbers. The only relief from the tedium is Virginia O'Brien, with more material and less dead-pan, and Lena Horne, whose rendition of "Just One of Those Things" leaves you breathless...
Oliver Lyttelton, one of Winston Churchill's Ministers (Production), had said that by the end of this week the Allies would have "some sign of future events ... a breathless moment ... the first evidence of victory." If his words meant anything-and so many words of promise had meant less than nothing-the day of action was at hand...
...asphyxial deaths represent newborn babies who never breathe at all or who gasp feebly and then turn blue. Dr. Flagg is famed for his skill in urging the breath of life into the newborn, and he believes that probably 20% of these 30,000 breathless babies could be saved-if 1) anesthetists more often took charge of them, 2) ordinary doctors learned more about the art of resuscitation and anesthesia...
...Male and Ethel Vance's Escape were dramatic stories of flight from the Gestapo. As a story, The Seventh Cross is just as good-and a lot more. The desperate lunges of its hunted fugitive hero against the constricting circle of Nazi pursuit generate the same kind of breathless fascination with which people watch a rabbit trying to escape the coils of a snake...
...Blitz as Roosevelt and Churchill were later surprised by the Japanese foul at Pearl Harbor. Orator Churchill was so sure Hitler was going to attack Russia in June that for "two months" previously he rehearsed and tried out on friends the sonorous periods in which he later informed a breathless world that "any man or state who fights against Naziism will have...