Word: gaspeing
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Mention of Nkrumah's name brought a gasp in the sweaty courtroom. "Did you believe this?" asked the solicitor general. "Yes," said Braimah, and accused his chief of buying a Cadillac and building a fine home on the proceeds of graft...
...client can call the tune because he's paying the piper. Often the client gets in the way of an architect's creative ability . . . An architect's first duty is to his art. The real art of architecture is monumentality-something that will make you gasp . . . This is what every architect has to think about . . . You can't get this artistic experience by simply following the client's wants. Your client is not an artist. If he were, he probably wouldn't have come to you for assistance...
...good joke is an old one, the Lampoon's Harvard-Yale Game issue kicks the Old Grad and the pigskin squarely and sometimes humorously. Eighteen photographs supplement the parody on sport sidelights and interviews with Grand Old Men of Football. Perhaps Lampy's switch to photography is a last gasp effort to beat the cartoon nemesis--it may not succeed...
...always had the self-confidence necessary to bluff her way through tough situations. At a county fair horse show, her horse went over the first jump and Ros went over the horse's head. She landed, luckily, on her feet, and turned the crowd's gasp into applause by doffing her hat and bowing as though she had intended to somersault from her mount...
...statesmanship, Iran's Premier Mossadegh for nearly two turbulent years had manipulated all before him-the Parliament, the popular will, and the earnest but weak Shah. Last week, the young (33) Shah of Shahs spilled some tears himself, and it was fanatical old Mohammed Mossadegh who had to gasp for breath and fight for his political life...