Word: gasp
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kennedy and told her, "We have found your son and the paramedics have arrived." Recalls Beebe: "She said, 'He's dead, isn't he?' I said, 'I'm sorry, yes.' She made a mother's sound, a strange sound, like a gasp, and hung up the phone...
...Soviet leader's long career as chief administrator of the Central Committee and as Leonid Brezhnev's appointments secretary, many Western analysts had dismissed Chernenko as a faceless bureaucrat who would always be everyone's second choice for the job. Now he was being seen as the last-gasp leader of a gerontocracy intent on keeping the younger generation from moving too quickly into the corridors of power. Said a Western diplomat in Moscow: "If Andropov had lasted another four months, I don't think Chernenko would have made...
...toes. But the other family members are often deadly serious; they express themselves in Composer Henry Krieger's capacious Tin Pan arias, which haunt the ear without paying much more than lip service to the Afro rhythms that energized his Dreamgirls score. In the final gasp of the show's schizophrenia, young Willie comes to a perverse decision about the show he has dreamed of appearing in. It satisfies his parents but not a Broadway musical audience. How could it when a tap-dance kid says, in effect, "I won't dance...
...candidate, has had his share of personality difficulties with colleagues many times in the past. Notes a Democratic Congressman: "If the reorganization permits Keefe to function, you may see the blooming of the Glenn campaign. If White only circles the wagons around him, it may be the last gasp." Says Tim Finchem, Mondale's finance director: "We don't see anywhere a depth to their organization. We assume they'll be running a media-oriented campaign...
With less than three minutes left, Army started a last-gasp drive, but when Turner lofted a pass too close to Garvin, the senior linebacker reached up to make the one-handed interception that put the game away...