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Word: breathlessness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides barking up a flock of man-sights-dog stories, Muttnik pointed the press to such offbeaters as the U.P.'s breathless account of an Illinois housewife whose metal bed frame somehow picked up the satellite beep ("Three shorts and one long, like Beethoven's Fifth Symphony"). Editors strove heroically for local angles. Hearst's New York Journal-American-which let its sleeping anti-vivisectionism lie-tracked down a canine psychologist who reassured animal lovers: "This dog is happy to be part of something important...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Dog Story | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...Rosenberg & Stiebel for an even $200,000. The dealer refused to say for whom he was bidding. But sharp-eyed reporters could hardly fail to note the jubilation of Henry Ford 11 and his wife when the painting was knocked down, or miss Mrs. Ford's breathless "thank you" to her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Greatest Auction | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

...smoke as the bugles sounded, the drums beat, and the entire orchestra rose to a grand finale of cannon fire. The Moscow audience applauded the symphony warmly, but not with unusual enthusiasm. Wearing a dark, double-breasted suit, Composer Shostakovich walked up to the stage and took a breathless, jerky bow. Correspondents noted that he was fighting a nervous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Shosty's Potboiler | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...Hello, Pete," joshed manager Skip Elsas, as Segal emerged, breathless, from the clubhouse, typing up his sweat pants...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: From Oblivion to Glory and Back Again | 10/24/1957 | See Source »

...American Left Bank. Small, maybe, but in spirit a cultural frontispiece extending from San Francisco to San Simeon." With a flourish of the hand, he proceeded to reel off a list of names--poets of the technological age, bar-room bohemians and prophets of the "beat, sad-brown and breathless generation...

Author: By John D. Leonard, | Title: A Visit to Big Sur | 10/8/1957 | See Source »

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