Word: panting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...toughest environments on earth is the high, thin-aired Andes. Lowland visitors puff & pant after trying to walk a few blocks in Oroya, Peru (12,000 feet) or La Paz, Bolivia (12,400 feet). Some get soroche (mountain sickness) so badly that they lose consciousness. Many lowlanders never get adjusted, and have to move back "down the hill...
...when human beings caught on to the musk smell. As the deer's fame grew, rajahs and ranees, kings and their concubines, seducers and seductresses learned to use musk as a perfume. The Prophet Mohamed wrote in the Koran: "The Seal of Musk. For this let those pant who pant for bliss." The Empress Josephine, to rouse Napoleon's baser nature, used so much musk that the walls of her rooms, for years afterward, were still fragrant with...
...Yale First downs 9 14 Yards rushing, net 74 233 Forward passes 14 13 Passes completed 5 7 Yards gained, passes 65 121 Interceptions 0 1 Gain by interceptions 0 11 pant average 35 34 Yards gained, runbacks 73 84 Penalties 1 6 Yards penalized...
...their most private thoughts blue-penciled, Escape in Passion's characters will probably seem alive to the devoted few who have followed their progress since 1932. Most newcomers to Romains' encyclopedic study will experience the puzzlement of a pedestrian who suddenly sees the muddy, sweaty finalists pant past in the last stages of a transcontinental bicycle race. He has no idea of where they are pedaling to, no conception of the vigor and dash with which they began the contest. Nonetheless, he feels an instinctive desire to cheer -if only because he can see that they have come...
...long campaign to make him a puppet ruler. Roxas, determined to carry on guerrilla activities, warded off the first Jap blandishments by feigning illness (he had lost 48 Ibs.). When Japs came to call at his Manila home, he took fever shots, bounded up & down steps to make himself pant and sweat. Finally, Premier Tojo sent his personal physician to treat Manuel Roxas; eventually Roxas found his name on a Jap-appointed commission to draft a Philippine constitution...