Word: gasp
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...wasn't his old self off the tees, and in the third day's round a gasp of disbelief went up from his gallery when he took four putts on the 15th green. Hogan did not blame the climate. He said merely, "Hell, I'm just not playing golf." In the final round, Ben finally found his touch with a one-under-par 70, but by then it was too late...
...Japanese surrender aboard the battleship Missouri, the album preserves historic high spots of the years between. Here is Britain's Edward VIII confessing that Wallis Simpson of Baltimore is "the woman I love"; here, as the dirigible Hindenburg explodes in flame above Lakehurst, N.J., the announcer's gasp, "It's terrible . . . it's terrible! . . ." There are the soothing phrases of Neville Chamberlain, returned from Munich; the hysterical scream of Hitler, punctuated by the thunder of his Storm Troopers' "Sieg Heil! Sieg Heil!"; the uninflected, almost casual voice of Joseph Stalin promising death to the invading...
...bedchamber to witness the births of royal heirs. During Victoria's confinements Prince Albert succeeded in banishing the government man into an antechamber, but the official (usually His Majesty's Secretary of State for Home Affairs) was always called in to view the newcomer at its first gasp...
...night. On election eve, while Tom Dewey piously urged everyone to get out and vote, Harry Truman had broken all the rules of proper election-eve conduct by urging the people to get out and vote for Democrats. His last words, which sounded to the experts like a last gasp, were: "Why, it can't be anything but a victory...
Words never moved faster than they did last week in Washington. A "distinguished audience" in the Library of Congress hardly had time to gasp before the 457,000 words (1,047 pages) of Gone With the Wind were snatched out of the air from across the city by a gadget called "Ultrafax"* and reproduced on a moving photographic film. The transmission took two minutes and 21 seconds. Impresario of the event was David Sarnoff, president of the Radio Corporation of America. Not a man to be caught in understatement, Sarnoff compared the importance of Ultrafax to that of splitting...