Word: gasped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Quarterback Johnny Lujack had graduated; the departure of Ziggie Czarobski and All-America George Connor had left holes at both tackles. (Gritted Leahy: "You can't lose boys like that without having to start over.") And Purdue's 1948 Boilermakers, though still the underdogs, were a long gasp from an opening-game breather. To many experts, they looked like the strongest team on Notre Dame's ten-game schedule-which this year, for the first time since 1913, does not include Army...
...Japan completed (TIME, Aug. 16), retiring Lieut. General Robert Eichelberger debarked at San Francisco, acknowledged a salute with an expression that suggested thoughts of the somber past (see cut). His wife, with a happy gasp as she spotted a friend on the dock, seemed more concerned with the pleasant present...