Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, knows the cost of this breath-taking proposal. Since it would start slowly, it is estimated that it would merely take an extra $262 million out of general revenue, which would rise to $800 million the following year. This is probably conservative, and is on top of employee and employer contributions...
Roth makes the most of the few incidents he does describe, and he weaves them together skillfully. Time passes as invisibly in the novel as it does in childhood. One's breath is never taken away by a neat revelation, but the sense one gets of a gradual process of discovery is nearly perfect...
...were able to hold almost continuous open house in an attempt to cultivate the Afghans. She herself blazed paths never previously crossed by woman, marching into teahouses, where her entry literally stopped the music. They also, in their two-year stay, managed to traipse around virtually the whole spiney, breath-catching land. In describing these travels. Author Klass has revealed the same purposeful, manipulative skill with words that she has with people...
There was only one candle on the cake when U.S. Socialism's perennial Presidential Hopeful Norman Thomas celebrated his 80th birthday last week. So he had plenty of breath left to sound off for 2,000 admirers at Manhattan's Hotel Astor. Thomas, who campaigned for the Democrats last fall with the slogan "Most of the way with L.B.J.," blasted the Administration's anti-poverty program ("to talk of victory is nonsense"), called for a cease-fire in South Viet Nam, opened telegrams of congratulations from Hubert Humphrey and Earl Warren. Best reading...
...spirit of Edgar Allan Poe hovers over these playlets, not only in brooding menace, but in the sealed and airless abodes where characters are filled with the breath of death. The actors seem perfectly attuned to this death's dream kingdom, most notably Frances Sternhagen, who is scrupulously convincing as she shifts from the droning drab of The Room to the animated superficial niceties of professional wifeliness in A Slight Ache...