Word: gasped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard's domination of college track began to wane. The Golden Age began to tarnish after the Crimson's 11th Intercollegiate title in 1892--its last for a long time. For the next four years, Harvard struggled to stay in contention. Then, in 1896--its last pressive last gasp effort that would be followed by a sustained slump in the track department--Harvard's tiny contingent to the first of the modern Olympic Games in Athens picked up five gold medals...
...short of success. An attempt to simulate awkwardness in the opening scene achieves only slowness. At the other interval when smart pacing could do much--the death of Regina's husband--Nichols throws it all away, so when Horace runs desperately up the stairs, the audience doesn't even gasp. Nichols, it is true, has a tolerable eye for blocking small groups: with 5 actors, he is happy; with 4 or 6 comfortable; with 3 or 7, resigned. But where it counts, with 1 or 100, he retreats stealthily into the confines of his aisle seat and lets matters proceed...
...second period at Oakland last week, Bobby drew an awed gasp from the crowd with a blast that hit a defender's stick-and ricocheted all the way up to the 34th row of the stands. Not every opponent who crosses the path of a Hull missile gets off so lightly. Montreal Goalie Lome ("Gump") Worsley caught one in the face three years ago, firmly believes that the only reason he was not killed was that he was hit by the flat side rather than the edge of the puck. Last October, Minnesota Goal Tender Cesare Maniago was knocked...
...will gasp and crumple in agony," said the ads for Luther, "and the Christian world will split. Tonight. In your living room." Now who could afford to miss that? And just to make sure that no one did, the ABC cameras zeroed in for so many closeups that it seemed as though the lenses were affixed to the actors' noses. But that was all right, for the furrowed brow and blazing eye said a lot. Filmed in London, the adaptation of John Osborne's play about Martin Luther's supposed psychological dilemmas glinted with bright character roles...
Somehow the Terriers got the ball down to Hayes again, and the slick southpaw sliced in for another bucket at the two-second mark. A last gasp desperation hook by Grate fell short...