Word: gaspeing
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...Don’t feel bad. [Okay.] Sometimes you just have to get that out of your system. [True that.] You’ll never want for lovers. [Amen!] Homeostasis for you will always involve a lover. [Preach on!] The second brush with fame happens to you in Asia. [Gasp! The Luce!] Two of these cards require moving or travel. [Or maybe the Sheldon, Shaw or Trustman!] You will find fame while living on foreign soil. [Here’s to hoping.] You’re also going to have a baby late [uh oh, how late?], around 43 years...
...often a harbinger of a rising economy--and it's not the only one we're seeing. The stock market has been quietly rallying. Initial public offerings of stock remain few, but those getting to market are being snapped up fast for the first time since the last gasp of Internet mania in early 2000. And the benchmark 10-year Treasury bond, a proxy for mortgage rates, shot from 4.17% to 5% in a blink. Higher rates are a burden to borrowers--but one that usually precedes a stronger economy. "The worst is over," declares Mark Zandi, chief economist...
...headed into their 38th World Series, the team that only a network television executive could love became the standard bearer for a shattered city and a wounded country. Something unthinkable is happening among baseball fans: this year they happen to like New York. It happened in Chicago. It happened, gasp, in Boston, where fans sang New York, New York to a team they've despised only since 1919. "Where we've been, we've been seeing an outpouring of the fans," noted Andy Pettitte, the winning pitcher in Game 5 against the Mariners and the A.L.C.S. MVP. "Obviously wanting their...
...Scream Extractor”—is also consumed with jealousy for Sulley, the only one who stands between him and the Scarer of the Day title. Eventually Randall’s envy and Sulley’s good-natured clumsiness accidentally let a human child—gasp!—into the monster world, and by the time Sulley gets the chance to return her, he has grown fond of the little girl, affectionately dubbed “Boo.” I swear, this is the perfect post-Halloween movie...
Just then, a piece of floating paper pressed flatly against our office window. The edges were charred dark brown. It was a piece of company letterhead that said “Marsh USA.” Everyone let out a gasp at the sight of it; Marsh was on the 95th floor of the north tower...