Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then the police arrived at the scene. Everyone else filled out forms and drove off, but Joan was escorted in the patrol car to a nearby police station, where she submitted to a breath analysis. Then...
However, neither baseball's heroic individualism nor its breath-taking system of converging lines is a quality that especially endears the game to the intellectual. What matters, for trivialists or dispassionate baseball believers, is the durable history of the game. Professional baseball has been around longer than any other organized pro sport in the United States and with each passing season increases that margin in time played. While no other sport boasts even 1000 playing hours a season, baseball teams play close to 6000 a year and make the game the unrivalled quarry for trivia hunters...
...disease shortens breath, causes chronic coughing, renders its victims incapable of sustained physical exertion and eventually kills. Less predictably, but in tragic numbers, asbestos produces cancers of the lung, colon or stomach (TIME, Jan. 28). No level of exposure is known to be safe. Children playing around asbestos dumps, wives who wash the work clothes of their asbestos-laborer husbands and people living near asbestos factories have been affected...
...must have been caused by metal tracings from the hammer used to pound the material into dust. "Nobody ever said to me that the stuff could hurt you," Hubert Thomas, who had worked at the Tyler plant and now cannot walk a block without stopping to catch his breath, told Brodeur. But then he recalled one warning from J.W. McMillan, another plant manager: "It's funny, ain't it? I mean, Mr. McMillan knew it was dangerous, and he died of cancer himself not long ago, but he never said to wear a mask...
Perhaps the most amazing part of being at Harvard though is the "freshness" of the experience. You can never anticipate just how things will turn out. The run of chaos slows for a moment while you catch your breath, and two months past seems ever so far away...