Word: gasped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well produce an even higher level of scholastic absorption. In an ordinary term this pre-occupation might be a matter for concern on the part of the administration. But the Summer Term of 1947 is not and has never been represented as an ordinary term. It is the last gasp of the war time acceleration, adapted to an unusual situation. And the student body is also of an unusual calibre. Its age and experience give it a direction and purposefulness not customary in undergraduates. It has business and social contacts more extensive than those of an ordinary college class...
Then he returned to Korea for a whirlwind tour which made one correspondent who had been on Wendell Willkie's train in 1940 gasp: "Damned if this isn't the same thing...
...great, tenor who used his lyric voice with natural grace and showed a warm feeling for character. Even the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson, usually the Met's sharpest critic, was impressed. He wrote: "He sings high and loud [and] does not gulp or gasp or gargle salt tears. . . . Not in a very long time have we heard tenor singing at once so easy and so adequate. . . . He even at one point sang a genuine open-throated pianissimo, the first I have heard in Thirty-Ninth Street since I started reviewing opera six years ago. . . . The wonderful thing...
Even the strait-laced BBC has its wild & woolly moments. The woolliest: 6:45 every week night, when British youngsters gasp at the well-planned perils of Dick Barton, Special Agent, hero of BBC's only nonstop thriller.* Every night, just as death's door opens, time's up. "What will Dick do? Listen in tomorrow night...
...tractors, monthly allowances of $15 for from three months to a year, cash grants up to $575 for building a house and stable, credits for all land cleared and ploughed. In some parts of the province this policy has paid off, e.g., the Rimouski diocese of the Gaspé Peninsula, where 33 new parishes averaging 150 to 200 families have been established in the past 15 years. But no one realized better than the Church itself that to the young men of today the virtues of pioneering sounded bleak and harsh beside the siren voice of the cities...