I was perched on top of the bar when I took a deep breath and launched myself backward for a dead man's drop.
First performed in 1933, "The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers," with its precision marching, crisp uniforms and hold-your-breath finale — the slow-motion backward fall of a line of 36 Rockettes — has returned.
One flick of its tail sent Lloyd tumbling backward -- gun, mask and breath gone.
When he'd finished the transaction, he put the money in his coat pocket and muttered something under his breath; then he left, without even a backward glance.
"Ye shall watch while nations strive With the bloodhounds, die or survive, Drop faint from their jaws, Or throttle them backward to death; And only under your breath Shall favor the cause.
These yes-no, right-left, forward-backward switches recur throughout "Esplanade," catching the breath.
She described it as a backward whistle, sort of a sighing intake of the breath.
After being catapulted backward 1,400 years, he doesn't even stop to catch his breath before coming up with a wisecrack.
"Under God" pointed backward and forward: back to "this nation", which drew its breath from both political and religious sources, but also forward to a "new birth".
Tests included inspiratory breath holding (sympathetic activation procedure), mental stress tests (color-word test and backward counting; 28 min), instructed rest prior to stress test (30 min TV watching), and controlled arm movement.
