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Word: breaths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walked to the end of the board like a diver. He stood on his toes like a diver. He flexed his muscles and took a deep breath like a diver. But Adlai Stevenson finally decided not to take the political plunge. Last week he announced that he would continue as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations rather than run next year for U.S. Senator from Illinois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: Second Thoughts | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

After he left Cambridge one YAF mansighed, "He was like a breath of fresh air!" As lines began to form for those interested in joining either YAF or the Birch Society, another student complained of a "queasy stomach...

Author: By Joseph M. Russin, | Title: Cong. Rousselot Carries Birch Gospel to College | 12/11/1961 | See Source »

...program opened and closed with sonatas by Bach and Haydn. Though Mr. Zaslaw's tone initially carried too much breath, it projected the low registers, and the breathiness disappeared later. Miss Chamberlain contributed wrong notes in the difficult spots; in the delicate passages she failed to make the crucial notes sound...

Author: By Wilson LYMAN Keats, | Title: Flute and Piano | 12/9/1961 | See Source »

Isapwo Muksika Crowfoot (?-1890), Blackfoot chief: "What is life? It is a flash of a firefly in the night. It is a breath of a buffalo in the winter time. It is as the little shadow that runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unaccustomed As I Am | 11/17/1961 | See Source »

...took the stage to the relief of most right-thinking music fans in the audience. Elliot Forbes drew at least two peerless moments out of his well-coached squad. Diffusa Est Gratia by Nanino approached a plane of spiritual majesty, especially during those exquisite final measures which required impressive breath control. In addition, Milhaud's setting of the twenty-first psalm was presented splendidly, in spite of its truly difficult chord patterns...

Author: By Raymond A. Sokolov jr., | Title: Glee Clubs at Sanders | 11/11/1961 | See Source »

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