Word: huff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quarter of a century, ever since U.S. tennis stars began to play frequently in Mexico City. All along, they have reported that for the first few days of competition their game is poor; after ten days to two weeks they begin to notice improvement, though they still huff and puff. Their observations were confirmed and amplified during last October's "Little Olympics," a preview sports week staged by the Mexican Olympics Committee...
That doesn't help matters any, however, because Blanchard comes home a day early, and Lucille, feeling herself as yet metaphysically uncleaned, tells all. Blanchard departs in a huff. Paola and Barbette then appear and tell Lucille the truth of the matter. Blanchard comes back briefly to tell his wife to leave his house. To Armand's great consternation, Lucille doesn't fill her husband in on Paola's revelation. Paola, delighted, announces she has won the duel and has proved that life is rotten. O no, cries Lucille, and producing a phial of poison, she kills herself, to prove...
Dallas is bound for a championship, but not this year. When Jerry Rhome takes over at quarterback in a season or two, then the Cowboys will be ready to go higher than fourth. Washington has superb performers in Sonny Jurgensen, Bobby Mitchell, Charley Taylor, Paul Krause, and Sam Huff, but the supporting cast will weight them down to fifth...
...Paris-Presse alone. Moreover, the Paris-Presse payroll was padded with all sorts of pleasant cousins and friends who never did a lick of work. At the news that a lot of these ardent Gaullists would come over to their paper, twelve top France-Soir staffers resigned in a huff...
Flanking King was Forman, his face twisted in a faintly childlike grimace. Again and again the photographers shoved him aside to snap a closeup of the doctor. Finally the SNCC field secretary stepped back a foot or two and plucked a shabby suit coat from a friend. With a huff of disgust, he yanked it on and buttoned it on over his soiled blue overalls. For a moment he lagged behind, morose and contemplative. Then, clapping his hands together, he lunged forward, linked arms with King and began to sing. "We Shall Overcome" echoed back through the ranks out into...