Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...existential playwright. His brief basic creed holds that human nature is not fixed and ordained, either by divine law or some ingrained edict governing the behavior of the species. Man instead defines himself in moment-to-moment acts that may be quite contradictory. This accounts for the breath-stopping power of the totally unexpected in a Pinter play...
...conceded that "the problem is not just to fight, but also to organize our country socially and politically on a war footing." In the next breath he vowed: "We are not going to allow the Communists to operate freely all over our country. We will kill all of them...
...system has forced people to think that they live in Hell because they deserve no better. You are poor because you are dumb and uncreative and your breath smells...
...meeting, Israel's U.N. Delegate Yosef Tekoah reiterated his country's complaint that the Egyptians had broken the terms of the 90-day cease-fire by placing Soviet SAM-2 and SAM3 missiles in position on the west bank of the Suez Canal. Then, in the next breath, he startled Jarring by announcing that he was flying home that very night for consultation with his government...
...bond was forming between us. I could almost watch it growing stronger daily. Earlier, when they clicked their weapons in the darkness, I would instinctively catch my breath, never quite sure what would happen next. After a week, the windows came open a tiny crack, and finally they were flung open altogether. Increasingly, I was left alone for long periods. After ten days, the soldiers gave me a pair of sandals-or gap, as I learned to call them-cut from an old automobile tire. The North Vietnamese soldier who presented them to me told me they were "sandals...