Word: gaspingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tree tops that was very unlike Spring made him half aware of a rushing, rumbling intermixture of sound and motion. There was the haste and tension of every exam period, yet there was something more. Something that could have been frightening except that it was mixed with a certain gasp of relief, a feeling that had to come after months of school without a break, months when academic routine and peering into books failed to fill the void of inactivity in a world of action...
...said, "the dimming lights of Bataan's forlorn hope fluttered and died. . . ... Our flag lies crumpled, its proud pinions spat upon in the gutter; the wrecks of what were once our men and women groan and sweat in prison toil; our faithful Filipino wards, 16,000,000 souls, gasp in slavery...
...table in front of him: "On the eleventh night this boy was very low. The waves kept beating over the raft. . . . For two nights I cuddled him like a mother would, hold a child, trying to give him warmth from my body. At 3 a.m. I heard his final gasp. . . ." Then came the rescue by a Navy flying boat, the trip home...
...slosh of manufacturers' publicity releases, out of starry-eyed speeches about far-distant planes that will "make the angels gasp," one fact emerged last week: the U.S. has another pursuit plane in battle and the first reports look good. Lockheed's long-ranged, twin-Allison-engined P-38, nicknamed Lightning, suddenly blossomed into action around the world...
...hoped-for production and imports) and no shortage at all for essential needs. But there was agreement on two central points: 1) there is no overall shortage of lumber for military needs; 2) but there is not enough lumber to fill all civilian demands. For wood is the last-gasp substitute for practically every other scarce material. Though production is 4% below 1941 levels, unfilled orders have skyrocketed to nearly 30% above last year (see chart...