Word: gaspeing
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...whether his greatest technical feat, the showstopping, leg-beating skitter across the stage called a brisê, was dramatically justified. "Do you think it made a bad impression?" he asked after the show. "The interpretation is mine, but the step is in the ballet. It's the last gasp of a soul...
...AMERICAN public rarely gets to see agents of its government inflicting violence, even violence in the name of the people. No television cameraman was allowed to cover the carpet bombing of Hanoi. No newspaper picture has ever shown the final gasp of an electric chair victim. When 1000 New York State troopers, sheriff's deputies, and prison guards overran Attica State Prison in September 1971, no photographer was permitted to see police bullets cut down 28 prisoners and 9 of their hostages. As a result, Walter B. Dunbar, then New York's deputy commissioner of corrections, was able to tell...
Hearst was assured that he would be the first to know. When they called him with the news that his daughter was not one of the victims, Hearst could only gasp, "Thank God!" His wife burst into tears...
Regaining his poise, he didn't permit a single Crimson score in the third period. McCall again gave the team a fourth quarter last gasp with the fourth goal, and Bill Tennis, after falling down on a fast break, slid through the Brown defense and scored the fifth point, breaking the previous best scoring performance of four goals...
...third dog tag that reads, "If you are recovering my body,-you." He tunes in on a Vietnamese girl, who learned her English from a black G.I., as she tells of her gruesome experiences during the Tet offensive in the funky phrases of the Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto. Does one gasp or laugh? That is a life problem, not a literary one. Jones just records what he hears...