Word: gasped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...death stench from Farmington No. 9. where 78 miners lost their lives in the worst mining disaster in recent times. Ahead is the murder of Yablonski by Tony Boyle's thugs. These are the last-gasp days of the New Left--SDS has splintered, and when Hobie gets to Boston he falls in with one of the wayward factions left by the rupture, a remnant that went neither with the Weathermen or Progressive Labor which Sayles calls "Third Way." Hobie's adventures with these self-styled urban guerillas as take place in the shadow of the Harvard strike...
...narrow escape revitalized Harvard and sent them scurrying to the opposite end of the field for a couple of last gasp attempts to score. Ann Forbes halted them again, however, gathering two ground shots into her capable hands...
Psyched for one last gasp after the kickoff, the Crimson defense then turned Isom and mates into pussycats for this one series and forced a Princeton punt. Half the fourth quarter remained, momentum was on Harvard's side and who cared what had happened during the first 50 minutes of the game...
...capturing a majority. Despite the general apathy, the polls gave his Rhodesian Front party 61% of the vote, compared with less than 4% for the far-right Rhodesian Action Party. Whether Smith's likely victory will prove to be a new lease on power or only a last gasp remains to be seen. But barring a stunning surprise, of which he is certainly capable, Smith was expected to turn humbs down on the U.S.-British proposal -thus buying a little more time, if not a solution...
...fitness has produced its measure of snobbery, much of it directed at such harmless but torpid pursuits as golf and bowling. Neither, says the religion of wheeze and gasp, will do much for your cardiovascular system. (A golf course is about four miles long, and is negotiated, usually sitting down, at an average of 1 m.p.h. or less; at the professional level, tournaments are won by jiggling fat men. Bowling consists of brief bursts of slow motion separated by rest periods.) And fitness of the heart, lungs and circulatory system, far more than muscular strength and flexibility, is what...