Word: gasped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addressing the House in favor of the Patman bill to pay the Soldier Bonus in full with new currency. Not a hale man, he had worked hard preparing his speech. During its delivery he grew excited when pestered by questions from the members. Suddenly he uttered a short, sharp gasp and slumped to the floor. One hand caught wildly at the flimsy reading stand before him. The official stenographer reporting his speech tried to catch him as he fell. A dozen Representatives leaped forward into the well, picked up his lifeless body, carried it to the lobby. House Physician...
...Wallenda Troupe, high wire performers. Two Wallendas stand on the wire, a pole upon their shoulders. On the pole is a chair. Standing on the chair is another Wallenda. Standing on the shoulders of this Wallenda is the fourth (female) Wallenda. Spectators gasp when the chair jerks dangerously, look apprehensively at the 20 attendants holding a canvas for poles, chair and four Wallendas...
...post office on a hand truck. Clerk Werkheiser, an arm and a leg blown away, was being trundled out on another truck. The post office was a wreck? bundles, letters, glass, splinters and debris hurled every which way. The two clerks, mangled and beyond recovery, managed to gasp out details of what had happened before they died. Three other clerks who were torn, cut and bleeding badly, and the five remaining infernal packages, still intact on the mailing counter, pieced out the story further. A Mennonite minister who had been addressing mail when the two bomb-mailers were there, added...
...shot pictures in Canadian lumber camps at 27° below Zero, on the spire of Manhattan's Chrysler Building, where it took three men to steady the tripod. Her 1930 New York business announcement, an ascending view of the Chrysler spire taken from atop the scaffolding, made recipients gasp. In her recent five weeks in Russia she had five proposals of marriage. She uses an Ansco "view-type" camera (but always carries a Graflex, too); develops her plates herself...
...News men, who staged the stunt, ground their cameras busily. As the Los Angeles climbed above the smoke screen and headed for home, the white vapor continued to drift lower and lower until mild panic occurred in the streets. A man riding atop a Fifth Avenue bus began to gasp and cough. He shouted "Sulphur!" and led a stampede of passengers down the stairs. Motorists complained to police that particles of the smoke had burned tiny holes in the tops of their automobiles. Scared pedestrians felt stinging sensations in their faces & hands, found their clothing dotted with acid burns...