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Word: breaths (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attention to the visitor bending anxiously over him. Finally, the patient opens his eyes and explains in a discreet Irish brogue that he kept silent because he wanted to savor the moment: "It's been six months here since I've had a drink, and your breath is like the rain from heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Reagan's Longest-Running Act | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

Patty, who will turn 22 this Friday, got her chance to make her story believable to the jury on the day her defense began. Weeping and straining for breath, she gave a horrifying account of her abduction by the S.L.A. from her apartment in Berkeley on Feb. 4, 1974. She said she was seized by William Harris, who was later to become her traveling companion, and Donald DeFreeze, the man known as "Cinque" and the self-styled field marshal of the group. A woman, Angela Atwood, held a pistol in her face. When Patty screamed, she was struck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Patty's Terrifying Story | 2/23/1976 | See Source »

...Grimes talked, Jeff Lessard, looking more out-of-breath schlemiel than on-the-move capitalist, in his work clothes and half-grown moustache, ambled over Bic's and Brigham's, the natural next to the corporate. Grimes put his arm around his employee's shoulder. "Someday," he said, smiling to the camera, "someday this man is going to take...

Author: By Fred Hiatt, | Title: The Brigham's Connection | 2/13/1976 | See Source »

...ambience of drama for its substance in "Yin and Yang," "Chidori" and "Goat Dance." Danced to throaty cabaret songs composed by Zygmunta Koniecznego, Monreal's duet has less specific associations than the other drama and succeeds in its allusiveness. Laura Young and Woytek Louski sweep through a succession of breath-arresting lifts, revealing the tenderness and trust implicit in "duet...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Twyla Sparkles, Boston Ballet Fizzles | 2/10/1976 | See Source »

...fish altogether. Hall explained the transfer this way: "John is a competent professional who was in the job so darn long that he just got crowded in by all the trees. We said, Hey John, you deserve and have earned the right to step aside and catch your breath a bit. Let us take over some of the things you've been handling, and when you're ready, why, you can come back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Axe Man | 2/3/1976 | See Source »

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