Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...obviously means to have his own way, even if it's at everyone else's and the country's expense, and regardless of how any of us may feel about it. If his demands are not met will he throw a tantrum or hold his breath till his face turns blue...
...encounter between Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill in a Kremlin steam bath ("a converted dungeon of the early czars") to Stalin's private reaction to North Korean Premier Kim Ilsung's invasion of South Korea in 1950: " 'That Asiatic m- ,' Stalin cursed under his breath in Georgian, 'has made a fool...
Another loud demurrer came from A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany. Shultz and Labor Secretary James Hodgson explained the Nixon program to the 35-member A.F.L.-C.I.O. executive council, but they might as well have saved their breath. Meany called the wage freeze "patently discriminatory" against labor. Hodgson insisted that the rank-and-file union man would back the Nixon plan and accused Meany of being "out of step" with the average working man. That struck a raw nerve, for the aged Meany, 77, feels his leadership threatened by younger union Turks. He sneered: "I don't pay too much attention...
...pressed city government had been forced to impose a hiring freeze. "Burbank was in a state of suspended animation," said Assistant City Manager James Algie. Agreed Lockheed Spokesman John Dailey: "It was like everyone had exhaled at once -and none of us knew we'd been holding our breath...
...villain in Klute. There is also some robust acting by Moses Gunn as an orotund Harlem mobster. Despite a few too many racial jokes, Shaft is a fast-moving pleasure. Director Gordon Parks keeps things going at such a headlong pace that the movie hardly pauses for breath...