Word: gaspeing
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...Trapper George Farrel, miles away in the frozen forest, heard no shots. But Parrel's huskies sensed something wrong and grew restless, soon were howling. Farrel broke camp, set out for Pich's cabin. After struggling through a blizzard he got there in time to hear Pich gasp out his story before he died. Outside, Farrel found the bodies of Pich's huskies. To save them from starving, Pich had shot them...
...bellowing Head of the Family, Uncle Chris (Oscar Homolka), who loves to scare and scandalize all the relatives he dislikes, dies, with a drinker's gasp of satisfaction, after tossing off his last neat drink. Mama, by swapping recipes, wheedles a successful authoress (Florence Bates) into reading Katrin's stories and passing on the secret of literary success (write about what you know); Katrin grows up, to write the stories that tell the whole movie in flashbacks...
...well produce an even higher level of scholastic absorption. In an ordinary term this pre-occupation might be a matter for concern on the part of the administration. But the Summer Term of 1947 is not and has never been represented as an ordinary term. It is the last gasp of the war time acceleration, adapted to an unusual situation. And the student body is also of an unusual calibre. Its age and experience give it a direction and purposefulness not customary in undergraduates. It has business and social contacts more extensive than those of an ordinary college class...
Then he returned to Korea for a whirlwind tour which made one correspondent who had been on Wendell Willkie's train in 1940 gasp: "Damned if this isn't the same thing...
...great, tenor who used his lyric voice with natural grace and showed a warm feeling for character. Even the Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson, usually the Met's sharpest critic, was impressed. He wrote: "He sings high and loud [and] does not gulp or gasp or gargle salt tears. . . . Not in a very long time have we heard tenor singing at once so easy and so adequate. . . . He even at one point sang a genuine open-throated pianissimo, the first I have heard in Thirty-Ninth Street since I started reviewing opera six years ago. . . . The wonderful thing...