Word: gaspeing
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Scholars have lambasted court rulings that go back as far as the seminal Marbury v. Madison decision (1803), which asserted the court's power to overturn congressional legislation. They gasp at the Dred Scott case (1857), which denied that a Negro could be a U.S. citizen. They are still apoplectic over Koreinatsu v. U.S. (1944), complaining of its shabby justification for interning 70,000 Japanese-American citizens. Just as they winced throughout the Warren years, they are beginning to look askance at the Burger era. Says University of Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland: "We have no evidence yet that...
...Middle East any good. It picks up hot air and dust as it sweeps across Africa and the Sinai Peninsula, bringing a variety of afflictions in its northerly thrust. The moistureless air causes feet to swell painfully, noses and eyes to itch and asthmatics to gasp for breath. The khamsin can also madden men. Automobile accidents are far more frequent when it is blowing, crime rates increase by as much as 20% and tempers rise with the mercury. Judges in some Arab countries take a lenient attitude toward crimes committed during the khamsin...
JOHN CASSAVETES' Husbands is Middle America waking up to its mortality. It's the last gasp at the other end of the dream when a car, a home and a family are somehow no longer enough. It's running away when you're too old to believe you can start over and too married not to feel guilty about leaving. Personal and nostalgic. Husbands is Middle America's Easy Rider...
Grisly stuff, one might think, but not so, thanks to Pinter's sense of the ludicrous and his love of vaudeville and word juggling. While tickling the mind and prickling the skin, Pinter makes one giggle and gasp in the same breath...
Monsieur J. Cross is British Trade Commissioner to Quebec James Richard ("Jasper") Cross. The defiant note was the last truculent gasp from the Quebec Liberation Front fanatics who had held Cross-and Canada-in fear, anger and uncertainty for 59 days. When the F.L.Q. members finally freed Cross last week, their price had come down considerably: a safe-conduct to Cuba for four terrorists and three of their relatives...