Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wartime posters read: 'If 70 million Germans wept for 1,000 years they could not make disappear the human miseries they caused in Belgium and Northern France.' I shall fight to ensure the perpetuation of the inscription if it takes my last cent and my last breath...
...ninth inning and knocked a straight pitch over the right field fence, bringing in Bishop and tying the score. By slaps and gesticulations, since words could not be heard, Cubs tried to make Malone feel better, but his nerve was gone. He took a long breath, got rid of Mickey Cochrane on a grounder; burly Simmons doubled. Joe McCarthy signalled to pass Foxx. While the crowd, inimical to strategy, was hooting this. Miller's two bagger brought the run that won the championship and $6,000 prize money for each first-string Athletic; to each Cub-loser...
...fallen in the midst of a struggle fighting to end war and in striving for his country. Almost with his last breath he was striving for that peace and understanding in which he knew the only safety lay, and with which he so completely identified himself. He was a German who well merited the salute one owes to an adversary who has proven his metal and courage...
...nothing new to point out the high price of fame and the high cost of being or doing anything the least bit out of the beaten path. For a long while, persons in one breath have pitied the great and the queer, and in the next have asked for more and more details...
...proved to be the darkest hour before the dawn. The room was insufferably hot. It all seemed over. Somebody moved for adjournment for ten minutes to give us a chance to get a breath of air. We broke up into little groups. The British remained in the conference room. The others went outside. Then the bargaining began...