Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...literary needs. In Milton's Paradise Regained, Christ is an intellectual who disdains "the people" as "a herd confus'd, a miscellaneous rabble who extol things vulgar." The 19th century skeptic Swinburne had a character say of Jesus, "O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath." D.H. Lawrence equated the Resurrection with Jesus' awakening sexual desire. In the 1960s, S.G.F. Brandon saw the Nazarene as a sympathizer of the 1st century's Zealot guerrillas...
...Middle East any good. It picks up hot air and dust as it sweeps across Africa and the Sinai Peninsula, bringing a variety of afflictions in its northerly thrust. The moistureless air causes feet to swell painfully, noses and eyes to itch and asthmatics to gasp for breath. The khamsin can also madden men. Automobile accidents are far more frequent when it is blowing, crime rates increase by as much as 20% and tempers rise with the mercury. Judges in some Arab countries take a lenient attitude toward crimes committed during the khamsin...
...flounders in jargon. It takes a young Jesuit psychiatrist-priest, equally familiar with the uses of Librium and prayer, to understand that Regan suffers from old-fashioned possession by the devil. Sometimes known as Captain Howdy, he speaks through Regan's mouth, fills her room with his bad breath and levitates furniture. Lacking any of the stature of his medieval forms or any of the wit of his 19th and 20th century literary incarnations, this devil seems little more than a pathetic old pedophiliac clinging to the mere body of a pubescent girl as if she were a rent...
...anticipated, Liquori passed Ryun and began a tortuous 660-yd. sprint for the finish. Rounding the final turn, Ryun pulled to within a step of Liquori. Down the stretch they came, Ryun with his head ticking rhythmically, Liquori with shoulders hunched and head back like a man fighting for breath. At the tape, Liquori was still a step ahead; he won in 3:54.6, the fastest mile he had ever run. Ryun was so close behind that officials clocked him in the same time. Afterward, Liquori said that the race proved only that "I was the fastest on this particular...
Wald, one of three Nobel Prize winners endorsing McGovern, called the Senator "a breath of fresh air." "All over the country college administrators are congratulating each other that this was a quiet year, when in reality it is not the quiet feeling that our problems are being attended to; it is the quiet of despair." he said. Wald added that "vot-ing doesn't matter unless one is offered a real choice. George McGovern offers a choice...