Word: gasped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Disorganized, depressed, and debilitated, the Southern bloc in the Senate had faint hope of blocking the Administration-backed voting-rights bill. But last week, more for the record than anything else, the Southerners made their ritual try. The last-gasp effort was somehow symbolized by Mississippi's respected John Stennis, who had scarcely warmed to his subject when he clutched his throat, staggered slightly, fell into his seat. "Get me some water," he gasped to alarmed Senate aides. As it turned out, Stennis had suffered only a temporary throat spasm - a hazard of the trade - and soon recovered...
Runs, hits and errors: that's what makes baseball. And out at Splinter Stadium yesterday. Tufts and Harvard got together and collectively produced 19 of the first, 19 of the second, and (gasp!) 11 of the third...
...this?" demanded Biff, but he was answered only by a nervous gasp...
...wife of Novelist Romain Gary, she has written several skillful biographies of the period (The Wilder Shores of Love, The Sabres of Paradise). In this book, her first novel, she proves herself a comic writer with a range of wit that can make her readers grin, giggle, gasp, even explode into laughter...
...ascends, his forehead glistening with sweat, his chest heaving, he steps out into a halo of white light. Turning slowly, deliberately, he fixes his enigmatic gaze on the audience for one hypnotic moment, then begins to dance. And, like the sound of the sea, there comes the great rushing gasp of an audience enchanted...