Word: breathlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courier, rushing packets of pictures to be put aboard trains at Grand Central Terminal, was accosted by a breathless, officious youngster. "Hey, wait! The office made a mistake?let's see your bundle. Yeh?they put two in for the Hartford Courant instead of one. Okay, I'll take the extra one back to the office. S'long...
Crowds at the Newmarket Races told each other by the thousand with breathless exclamations: "The King is smoking a cigar...
...into the title of his book: who moved the stone from Jesus' tomb? Author Morison's book is written like a detective story, suspense false clues and all. But the answer, held back till the last chapter, will come to many readers like an anticlimax after a breathless prelude. Author Morison's answer is: Jesus Himself...
...footed. The traditional square dances, queens, representing the two orders of society, football games, and sweetly melodious marimba concerts in the moonlight were all features of the ceremonies. Particularly impressive, though, were the bull-riding contests, held in a special plaza and attended by a large audience, which in breathless excitement, watched the infuriated bulls buck their riders, who stuck tenaciously to the smooth saddles and used spurs vigorously without a thought to impending danger...
...empire was waiting with breathless impatience to hear a sallow, middle aged, crippled little Yorkshireman...