Word: gasp
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...during which multiple generations would live and die on board, before reaching even a nearby star like Proxima Centauri, 4.3 light-years away. And in the end, not even such a sanctuary would save our descendants, or any other life-forms still inhabiting the universe, from its last, dying gasp...
...even banning cities from throwing cocktail parties for I.O.C. members. Recently when a flight carrying a member of the I.O.C. from Seoul to Frankfurt made an unscheduled stop in Beijing for a medical emergency, I.O.C. member Alex Gilady called I.O.C. president Juan Antonio Samaranch to confess that he was?gasp!?in a bid city and begged not to be reported to the ethics committee. Gilady was only half joking...
...even banning cities from throwing cocktail parties for I.O.C. members. Recently when a flight carrying a member of the I.O.C. from Seoul to Frankfurt made an unscheduled stop in Beijing for a medical emergency, I.O.C. member Alex Gilady called I.O.C. president Juan Antonio Samaranch to confess that he was-gasp!-in a bid city and begged not to be reported to the ethics committee. Gilady was only half joking...
...Thoke was better. She kept the Big Red off the scoreboard until the bottom of the seventh, and shut down a last-gasp Cornell rally with her 11th strikeout of the afternoon. Harvard...
...silence when he finally held the iBook aloft like a trophy didn't quite cut it. It didn't quite feel like the Emperor was wearing no clothes (he was, in fact, decked out in traditional black turtleneck and blue jeans), but it came close. Thirdly, he was almost - gasp! - subdued during the subsequent interview. I swear, he almost smiled once...