Word: gaspeing
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Fate, alas, gives the heroine the short end of that wishbone. Hounded by the heartless censors, her lover dies in a highway accident, surviving just long enough to reach a telephone and gasp into the mouthpiece-sure enough-those three little words. To the Kleenex corps, each one of them will be worth a bushel of Bermuda onions...
Last Wednesday, resplendent in a mocha-colored sports coat, Chairman Adam Powell of the House's Education and Labor Committee arose on the floor to propose calling up the Administration's last-gasp bill. The customs of the House allow committee chairmen to try to bring bills directly to the floor on "Calendar Wednesday" without going through the roadblocking Rules Committee. But up stood Louisiana's conservative F. Edward Hebert, a Catholic, to challenge Powell's attempt to put the bill before the House. Rayburn promptly ordered a roll-call vote on the issue, commented sourly...
...Crimson had one gasp left in the person of Gary Borchard. A second team All-Ivy selection last season, Borchard was holding fifth place in the league scoring race until he failed to score double figures in the last three games...
...minute roll call was almost cruelly suspenseful. Though both camps had counted the votes in advance with exquisite care. Congressmen hovered tensely over tally sheets. In the galleries, as the roll call seesawed toward an end. each new no drew a low, hissing gasp of disappointment. The galleries were clearly on Mister Sam's side...
...subordinates to see if they have used unnecessary postage, shoots thema stiff A.P.K. reprimand if they have. As a hobby he collects, appropriately enough dime novels, e.g., the Liberty Boys, the Nick Carter series. But when it comes to houses, Kirby acts the tycoon. For fishing he keeps the Gaspé camp; for winter quail hunting he has a ten-room Civil War Plantation house on a lake in South Carolina; for football weekends he bought Chateau Chavaniac, a replica of Lafayette's villa in France, at Easton, Pa., frequently flies in a planeload of friends for Lafayette College...