Word: breathing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Rabbit knew the guy was half-crocked: "Everybody who tells you how to act has whiskey on their breath." But a feeling of unease, of inevitable doom, sank into his gut, and he returned to Brewer. Finally disappointed by a mistress too scared to let Rabbit get through to her, and slightly stirred by the selfless (if misguided) urgings of an Episcopalian minister, he returned to his wife Janice as well...
...most parts of the world, people have little use for alcoholic breath, but the Japanese have dreamed up a way to make it stop a car. Troubled by the steady increase in the number of drunken Japanese drivers and the traffic deaths they cause (1,200 last year), a Honda Motor Co. Ltd. engineer named Kazutaka Monden has developed a puritanical gimmick called the Sniffer that shuts off a car's engine when it detects alcoholic breath...
Before it becomes standard equipment, however, it will have to become more discriminating. It is so sensitive that even when a sober companion shifts a drunken driver to the back seat, it refuses to allow the motor to start; it can still sniff the drunk's breath. Still more embarrassing was the Sniffer's recent refusal to allow a sober woman to drive. The mechanism found her perfume intoxicating...
...Minnesota Vikings, Straight Man Bill Frink asked Karras what the Lions might be thinking about in the locker room. "I think they're voting on whether to come out tonight," said Alex. "Minnesota is a vicious team. They've got hair all over their bodies and bad breath." Later, on the Tonight Show, Johnny Carson asked Karras if he remembered any "great moments" in his eleven seasons in pro football. Said Karras: "No. I played with the Lions, John. I think taking showers was probably the highlight...
...grounded in reality: it seems to be broadly based and it attracts people who have proved that they are serious about changing American society by persevering through several years of difficult and frustrating organizing experiences. People returned to their home communities from Davenport with a kind of hold-your-breath optimism...