Word: gaspeing
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...remember televisions with knobs and dials but--gasp!--no remote control, then you probably grew up in the '50s or '60s. If you intend to watch the news tonight on one of those models, call the Smithsonian: you're a dinosaur. For as young shoppers head to electronics stores to buy the new high-definition TVs (HDTVs), the over-50 crowd is falling in right behind them...
...chest, an`d wait for the ring-ward side of the pen to be pulled open. But only 11 will ride the bull, and only four will know the glory of doing it twice. The rest will-in the time it takes several hundred steak-sandwich-chomping onlookers to gasp-be tossed in the air, flung to the ground and, if they're lucky, escape being trampled by a "big, high-horned buckin' bull" that, as the announcer booms, "has about one-tenth the power of a Mack truck." If they're unlucky, well, there are two paramedics...
...Dimensions line, launched in 2004 to accommodate an increasingly beefier populace. Nearby they view a display of LifeSymbols--knickknacks affixed to casket corners to signify that the occupant was, say, a fishing enthusiast. The undertakers marvel at a new line of less costly but still handsome caskets that uses--gasp--wood veneer. Finally, they admire urns and cremation jewelry, which prove that even casketmakers can't ignore the fact that more than a quarter of dead Americans wind up as ashes...
...left-leaning loyalties were hard to sustain through the malaise of the late seventies. In the 1980 election, during my year as Crimson editorial chairman, in a final gasp of last-ditch leftism, we endorsed the maverick candidacy of Barry Commoner. Having criticized what we saw as the Carter administration’s dangerous and ineffective turn to the right in the aftermath of the Iranian hostage crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, we thought that endorsing the Democrat would be hypocritical. For our purity, we got eight years of Ronald Reagan...
...turned around. I couldn't see. It was all dark, very scary. Then I said, "Wait a minute - I'm alive, I can move. [But] I couldn't move my legs. I swam with my arms to surface. I got to the surface, took a big gasp of air, and begged God to save me. I couldn't yell, I couldn't scream for help. The current was so strong...