Word: gasped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Detroit's Last Gasp. It was probably the best football day that Graham ever had. Cleveland's first two touchdowns came on Graham passes-the first scoring passes he had ever registered against Detroit in a league or championship game...
Detroit came to life momentarily in the second quarter: after a 52-yd. run by Lew Carpenter, and a Layne pass that put the Lions on the Cleveland four, Detroit's Bowman plunged over for the Lions' only touchdown. That was their last gasp. The Browns went for Layne mercilessly till he seemed almost out of action. A long pass by Graham, intended for Cleveland End Darrell Brewster, was knocked out of Brewster's hands but alertly grabbed in midair by Cleveland Halfback Ray Renfro. That set up the Browns' fourth touchdown, and the fifth followed...
...aura as warm as the old rose of the eleven cellos. The Concertgebouw made less noise than the best U.S. orchestras, and its climaxes were never ear-piercing. Rather, it seemed to inhale smoothly, reach its peaks easily, then relax with a sigh instead of an exhausted gasp...
...being sucked into a painful situation that it had only intended to observe from a safe distance, and there are moments of sudden, nervous recoil. At several of the most painful points, when Brando makes a gesture almost too natural to be borne, the spectators do not dare to gasp-they giggle. There could be no higher tribute...
Thereupon Watkins recessed the hearings and left McCarthy high and dry. Gasped Joe, in the week's best gasp: "This is the most unheard-of thing I ever heard of." Soothed Lawyer Williams: "Now, don't get excited...