Word: gasp
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...keep in shape for track. Minutes later the Mustangs got another and jumped into the lead, 26-25. Now it was Staubach's turn again. Circling right end, he picked up 11 yds. and ran head first into a herd of Mustangs. Slowly, the tacklers unpiled-and a gasp went up from the stands. There lay Staubach, stunned, on the ground...
...Home." Hardly a seat remained in the stands by 1 p.m. when Gurney's Lotus took off in the time trials to decide starting positions. A gasp went up when the announcer gave his speed: an average of 109 m.p.h. for the short one-mile track, almost 3 m.p.h. better than the fastest ever posted by an Offy at Trenton. Then came Clark, just a fraction faster to set still another record...
...while Warsaw held fast to its reputation as the only city in the world where people really like contemporary music. Berberian sang Circles, a free and atonal composition by her husband, Luciano Berio, in which even punctuation marks in an E. E. Cummings poem have musical counterparts-an aspirate gasp, for example, indicating an exclamation point. Warsaw was delighted...
...when we see him a virile 64, marrying a nubile 23-year-old beauty, those of us left of his college generation can only gasp, "What...
...Disguise. The tension in the room evaporated in a collective gasp of relief. The legislators had expected Kennedy to ask Congress to settle the dispute by outright compulsory arbitration -a prospect that frightened the politicians, wary of offending organized labor. "This is just right," whispered New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits. "A ten-strike," murmured Oregon...