Word: gaspingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like any red, white and blue interplanetary alien, Brinkley opts for what is right. The book recounts his exploits as he searches for the root of the conspiracy. Is it the Mafia, the Russians, or the Texas oil millionaire? Could it be--gasp...
...Gasp! If I look pained in the picture of me and Tetsuji Iwase sprinting to the finish of the Boston Marathon, let me tell you how pained I felt when I read Peter Stoler's claim that one must be a superb athlete to play left field for the Boston Red Sox, but anyone with enough determination can run a marathon. If it is simply skill that makes a superb athlete, I have no quarrel. But if physical conditioning has anything to do with it, sports physicians will confirm that the average marathoner is a more "superb" athlete than...
...example. Belinda, a charming young woman from Very Ordinary High School in Kansas is sitting with her boyfriend, Horace Albertus Magnus Gordon III. Horace and his friends begin to talk about ergs, their catch, and the abundance of crabs they caught in the last race. Immediately Belinda begins to gasp for breath, her eyes bulge, she rips at her hair and then blows bubbles in her milk. An obvious case of Crew Anti-jockism," he said...
Those who have never seen Dolly gasp. That mountain of a teased blond wig and the hot-pink, jeweled jumpsuit are spectacular. Only five feet tall, she totters atop five-inch gold heels. Swinging into All I Can Do, she catches the eyes of the people in the front rows and plays to them, talking, teasing...
...glaze and it turned quite white; I thought they didn't like my drawing, but then I saw everyone's plate went through this process. The kiln was opened with tongs. The pots were put into a red-hot chamber and did not break. That made me gasp. When they had been in that charcoal half an hour they were taken out; one was plunged into water and did not burst. I saw it red-hot under the water, and I thought, good God, this is something fantastic. This is something I must do. I decided that afternoon...