Word: gasp
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Steve looks as hale and hearty as most fisherman. His wrinkles are not the result of old age but the product of years in the salt air. Still, he rises with a look of pain and he moves slowly, like a trapped fish too tired to gasp...
...mangled self-images before they've hardened into permanent, placid cripples. In their own unconscious way they're all fighting for their freedom. But they are cornered rats, and Mean Streets gives us the animal's final moves--the disbelieving laugh, the snarl, and the last gasp of panic...
...European allies. Chancellor Willy Brandt got a first taste of the agreement when he received no more than a vaguely worded letter from Nixon only 48 hours before the agreement was signed. From Bonn, TIME Correspondent Bruce Nelan reports that "the reaction to the nuclear agreement was a collective gasp in Western Europe. Almost everyone believes that De Gaulle is now vindicated in his view that the U.S. would not risk nuclear destruction to defend Europe or risk New York to save Hamburg...
...knowing just how to deal with Margery's unrefined diction. How honestly she skips about on learning she has smitten a man at the theatre! What a laugh she elicits on exclaiming, "Oh jeminy!," when first introduced to the Horner she has heard about! How telling her little gasp on finally entering Horner's bedroom...
...rusty and almost frozen, down on the unheated wooden floor. Steam and smoke from its melting drift upward and wrap themselves about her loins and her heart; finally centering and being released in the hot tears that fall from her eyes with each deep intake of breath and sharp gasp of sweetly curdled praying words...