Word: gasped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson, bright spots were few and disappointments many. Pete Adams and Dick Smith swent the 500-yd. freestyle and Bill Murphy turned in two clutch spinners to snare the dive, but, aside from a last gasp victory in the freestyle relay, these were Harvard's only wins...
Amherst and Harvard have played one common opponent, Brandeis. The Crimson smothered the Judges 85-60, while Amherst managed only a last-gasp two-point victory. Barring a letdown, and if Harvard Captain Gene Dressler shows no ill effects from the dislocated finger he suffered in the final seconds of the B.C. game, Harvard will...
...guess? "Don't think your dear old Aunt Fran doesn't know which way the wind blows." Colgate 100 has similar advice to the breathlorn. The date is over, and Tom is depositing Betty at her door. She melts into a coy pucker only to be offered [gasp!] a handshake, as Tom about-faces out of the foyer. "Well, I never," Betty tells her roomie, who shrewdly asks: "Sure you're O.K. in the breath department?" Cut to the next Saturday night farewell scene. Betty proffers her hand to Tom, who ardently sweeps it away and darned...
...spurt in defection, Peking sent army units to the borders above Hong Kong and Macao, but a lot of Chinese still managed to slip through. With them came unconfirmed reports that Mao Tse-tung was suffering from throat cancer and that the Red Guard-led purge was the last gasp of a dying dictator. To be sure, Mao has not spoken publicly during his last few outings, allowing Defense Minister Lin Piao (TIME, Sept. 9) to be his mouthpiece. Last week Lin was placed directly in command of the Red Guards-a position heretofore held by Mao's chief...
...gears. Through the years, Duchamp-Villon's Horse has been known only in terms of the final small-scale model. Even as such, it has been hailed as a major breakthrough in 20th century sculpture. Henri Matisse, paying a visit to the sculptor's studio, could only gasp at its completion: "It's a projectile...