Word: gaspeing
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...breath one minute and 13 seconds with my mouth full of pebbles." Basso Norman Scott said he could better Peerce by at least one second, and the contest was on. Winner: Scott with a time of one minute, three seconds. Last in the field: Coloratura Pons, who had to gasp for air after 39 seconds...
...final gasp of opposition, the railway and seaport lobbies are hinting that Canada really cannot afford to build the Seaway by itself at all, and that its announcement is intended to dupe Congress into co-sponsoring the project...
...view, must go hand in hand in literature, as they do in life. So, when one of his Four Men puts to the others the question, "What is the best thing in the world?", the Sailor answers: "Flying at full speed . . . and keeping up hammer and thud and gasp and bleeding till the knees fail and the head goes dizzy." But the Poet says: "[The best thing in the world] is a mixture [of] great wads of unexpected money, new landscapes, and the return of old loves." To which the third man, oM Grizzlebeard, retorts contemptu ously: "All you young...
...morgue, the stretcher was being wheeled into the reception room when Leonard and Driver Jim Darling heard a gasp from under the sheets. Within eight minutes, Mrs. Butler was in an emergency hospital, wrapped in blankets. She was given plasma, and after 20 minutes she began to revive, with a pulse of 66. Within the hour, after more stimulants, her skin began to warm up. Mrs. Butler was really alive...
...backdrop in California; with a rich, bellowing bass to match his histrionics, the effect was heroic. After the death scene, the bravos all but blew the house in. Even the critics sounded their A's. The Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein: "Never before have I heard an audience gasp when an operatic hero fell dead; this is the final measure of the conviction with which Rossi played Boris." Declared Critic Cecil Smith in the News: "The most commanding Boris since Chaliapin...