Word: breathing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...opposed to debentures, 46 Senators in favor, one Senator undecided, one Senator sick and not yet sworn in. With the outcome so uncertain, Vice President Charles Curtis braced him self for the emergency of having to vote to break a tie. How would he vote? asked Senators under their breath. In the Coolidge era, as Kansas Senator and presidential candidate, he had voted once for and once against the equalization fee, of which the debenture plan is the equivalent in the Hoover...
Next came arraignment of flask-toting, whiskey-smuggling Congressmen, of bribe-rotted enforcement officers; praise for the Spirit of Liberty. The Hoover logic was then trapped and chided. The President had ascribed "high moral instincts" to the People in one breath, and in the next had complained that respect for law was fading from their sensibilities. The President had complained of increased crime but had not perceived that the drastic Jones (Five & Ten) Act, by sending up liquor prices and making convictions fewer, would cause the liquor trade to finance the underworld more handsomely than ever...
...both hands. The one-or two-arm "clean and jerk" consists of lifting it with one or both hands, first to the chest, then jerking to above the head..The two-arm "military press" is complex. This consists in lifting it to the chest, taking a deep breath, counting two, then slowly raising it above the head...
...Hickory Flats, Miss., the board of aldermen has passed ordinances making swearwords in public a misdemeanor, whiskey on breath a felony...
What had moved Mr. Bickel to talk in the same breath about Government, Business and Press Control? He did not say. But observers could draw their own semi-conclusions from the following facts...