Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Takes a normal breath and drops his head down, so that his chin touches his chest. He is in a relaxed vertical position...
...keep his head up long enough to get a breath, he sweeps his arms outward and steps down against the water with both feet, inhaling through his mouth...
...Living Eye. For Durrell, this discovery is a kind of Dionysian revel of language, a sunburst of images. Red wine is "volcano's blood." The evening air is "cool as the breath from the heart of a melon." A sunset in Rhodes becomes a conflagration. This is the kind of thing Durrell does so well that he tends to overdo it. But, periodically, he lifts imagery to insight. Many have written of the preternatural brilliance and clarity of the Greek light, but Durrell sensitively isolates its effect when he calls Greece not a country but a living...
...editorial staff had signed the endorsement, Tigar's opponent declared that "a candidate must be on good terms with the editor" to get support. Tigar's later defeat, it would seem, should have taken the air out of the issue, but after a week the Student Government drew another breath and charged windily that the Daily Californian "had not pursued an editorial policy of honesty and decency." The President of the Executive Committee accused the staff of perpetuating an "in-bred philosophy," and the committee started publishing the paper and deciding editorial policy. Censorship is the usual way to force...
...might have saved his breath. At week's end the military court found all three men guilty, sentenced elderly Publisher Lei Chen to ten years' imprisonment with an additional seven years' deprivation of citizenship rights, sufficient to keep him out of politics until...