Word: breathlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When an Army paratrooper steps out into space, he knows that the sudden blossoming of his parachute will rattle his bones, strain his joints, and for a breathless moment, make him feel like the popper on a bull whip. At worst, an opening shock snaps a paratrooper so violently that he blacks out, sometimes even causes heavy objects such as hand grenades to burst right through the pockets of his sturdy jump suit...
...Home-Ma's Upstairs (Nellie Lutcher; Capitol; 45 r.p.m.). Another empty-parlor innuendo by the breathless, excitable Nellie Lutcher of Hurry On Down fame...
Milord the Major. In World So Wide, Sinclair Lewis is again the Midwesterner who discovered the world and could not get over it. In one passage which almost recaptures the spirit of Dodsworth, Lewis observes: "Mr. Henry James was breathless over the spectacle of Americans living abroad and how very queer they are. . .But just how queer they are, Mr. James never knew. He never saw a radio reporter, never talked to an American Oil Company proconsul gossiping in the Via Veneto about his native Texas . . . Mr. James's . . . young American suitor, apologetic for having been reared...
Whisky & Coke. The two of them worked together on the Senteney murder until they ran out of hunches. Then one night Undersheriff Ross's telephone rang. A scared and breathless Carpinteria liquor dealer had something to tell him: "It was a cop that did the murder. I know which one. It was Leonard Kirkes." Kirkes had bought a pint of whisky and two Cokes from him on the afternoon of the day Margaret disappeared, said the dealer...
...Action. Hopped-up accounts of the Hungnam fighting kept going out. The U.P. sent out a breathless story of the "crucial final stage" that had the U.S. 3rd Division fighting "with its back to the sea to hold open the escape port of Hungnam against Communist 'banzai' attacks." Actually, MacArthur's headquarters insisted, U.S. forces were engaged in an orderly withdrawal at small cost...