Word: gasped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ministers...." Clearing his throat with a dry little Scottish cough, Baron Tweedsmuir began droning out a Speech from the Throne which suddenly drew from Parliament a great gasp of surprise. "My ministers are of the opinion," read the Governor General, "that the effective prosecution of the war makes it imperative that those who are charged with the grave responsibility of carrying on the Government of Canada should, in this critical period, be fortified by a direct and unquestioned mandate from the people. My advisers, accordingly, having regard to existing conditions and the stage of the life of the present Parliament...