Word: gaspeing
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With less than three minutes left, Army started a last-gasp drive, but when Turner lofted a pass too close to Garvin, the senior linebacker reached up to make the one-handed interception that put the game away...
...Chiefs of Staff, came aboard. He was visiting our task force, which was just training, and the rumor went around that he was on his way to the ships patrolling the Nicaraguan coast. He told us that two Marines had died in Lebanon a few hours earlier. A collective gasp went through the assembled crew. Half of it was from anger and sadness; half was worry that the ship would be sent straight to the Mediterranean. The men wanted their scheduled time in port, with their families and friends. Seven months is a long time. And there isn't much...
...years since a group of self-styled revolutionaries shocked the nation by holding up an armored truck in Rockland County, N.Y., killing a Brink's guard and, in a subsequent Shootout, two local police officers. It was quickly apparent that the attack was not merely a last violent gasp of the radicalism born in the '60s. Information gleaned from the robbery and murder scenes led police to "safe houses" in Mount Vernon, N.Y., The Bronx and elsewhere, from which they carted away truckloads of evidence. With that material, plus leads provided by informants, police began a nationwide conspiracy...
...Desmond Ryan and crammed with enough lore and craft about U.S. newspapers to qualify the reader for a diploma from the Annenberg School of Communication at Penn. Around a wheezing plot about a young investigative reporter trying to get the Big Story (a U.S. Congressman turns out to be-gasp!-corrupt), Ryan writes knowledgeably about libel law, newsroom computerization, labor disputes, inheritance taxes and galleys of other forces threatening to turn American newspapers into bland copies of one another...
...second-generation rock fandom and by doing that may have poisoned its career. After a Joy Division tinged first album. New Order sped up the beat and resumed its search for "the meaning of life" (as NME so pompously puts it) through the heretofore scorned-upon medium of--gosh, gasp--disco. But it was not disco to send Black music fanatics rushing to cry copycat, rather it was stripped-down, mechanized, hermetic music that was exhilarating despite its coldness...