Word: gaspeing
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...their final, last-gasp effort, the Southern segregationists made a motion that could have required the Senate clerk to read the record of the entire 68-day "legislative day" since formal debate on the bill began-some 6,000,000 words in all. The motion was defeated, 73 to 18, and at long last it was time for the historic vote...
...hammy hand, he crouched low, tucked the ball behind his right ear, and began to inch back his left foot like a second-story man feeling his way down a ladder in the dark. Suddenly, he dipped and flung himself bodily across the ring. A grunt, a gasp-the shot soared through the air and thudded into the turf 66 ft. 3½ in. away. For the second time in twenty days-and the third time this spring-Dallas Long had smashed the world record in the shotput...
Huntington Hartford's disingenuous public pitch constitutes his last-gasp effort to rescue a losing proposition. Show has cost him $6,000,000 in its three years of life, and although both circulation and ad revenues are up this year, the magazine is falling into the hole by $100,000 per issue. Hartford has tried to sell, but can't find a buyer. On the boss's orders, Show's President Frank Gibney cut the staff from 70 to 30 hands and aimed at turning the corner into black ink by 1965. But then Hartford impatiently...
...around in confusion, roar approval, fidget and scratch as Antony continues and like well-trained beasts roar again. When Antony whips out Caesar's blood-stained toga, which looks for all the world as it it's been smeared with strawberry ripple ice-cream, the mob gives its practiced gasp, but the audience, instead of being awestruck, chuckles...
...lady's last gasp may be her best moment...