Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...breath wind...
...fails. Despite the fact that Marasco once taught in a boys' school, he seems not to know that children are astonishingly acute judges of their teachers, or perhaps the knowledge did not suit his plot. At any rate, logic is the last guest to bring to this breath-taking show...
...suffering. Ice forming on their eyebrows, in their nostrils, their facecloths wet with breath and at the edges crusted with...
Lurking Spies. Outrage became an ecological crusade when some of the people who were exposed to the spray began to have odd complaints. Mrs. Willard Shoecraft, about 50, suffered chest pains, shortness of breath, repeated vaginal bleeding and numbness of her hands and legs. Robert McCray, 33, had some of the same symptoms; his infant son nearly died. At least half a dozen other families experienced stomach upsets after the spraying. Robert McKusick, 39, says that 60% of the kids in his small goat herd have been born dead or deformed in the past two years...
...advertising men. Officials of agencies creating these ads explain that such products, because they deal with dirt and unpleasant aspects of life, are difficult to sell gracefully. Ted Bates & Co. produced a television commercial for Colgate 100 mouthwash in which one woman confides to another: "My boyfriend said my breath would kill an elephant." According to Robert Castle, a Bates senior vice president, the ad revived the product's sagging sales. Says he: "You cannot sell mouthwashes with Bermuda beaches." On the other side, John OToole, president of Foote, Cone & Belding, contends that "the people who create offensive...