Word: gaspingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...leaders on such staid topics as labor contracts, taxation, inflation and purchasing power into some truly captivating theatrics. During a nearly 45-minute address billed as the blueprint of the second phase of Sarkozy's economic reforms, the gesticulating, sardonic, often dramatic President drew applause, laughter and even a gasp or two of excitement as he described how he intends to make France a more competitive economy...
...company Musashino. Koyama looks at his watch - it's 8:30 p.m. - and announces that the party is moving: "O.K.," Koyama says briskly, "we'll do hotel bar, sushi, drag-queen show, hostess club, in that order." The young salarymen, who volunteered to spend Saturday night with their boss, gasp. "We're going...
...hoping to get past the scandal. Gonzales and the White House have been fighting running battles with the Democrats for the better part of three months now and the failed no-confidence vote had been seen by some as a turning point. Republicans argued that it was the last gasp of what they view as a political witch hunt. Democrats said the vote won them new public support from Republicans and that it was simply part of a long, steady stream of moves designed to keep the pressure on Gonzales. This week the Senate Judiciary committee issued subpoenas...
...moved back to Dunster, where the eccentric alums got to try their hands at wooing the hot young undergrads...Matherites, in addition to threatening to secede from the College or whatever they proposed, seem to have bought rash-inducing soap for Mather Lather once again. Perhaps the UC was (gasp) right for once when they refused to put dolla billz into these irresponsible confederate hands...
When Harvard’s notorious sex magazine “H Bomb” lost its student group status last month because of incomplete registration, the collective gasp was far quieter in the magazine’s death than it was in its birth. The images and the words from an activities fair of yesteryear are still fresh in my mind, when the main selling point for “H Bomb”—all two issues of it—was the chatter it generated beyond Harvard’s gates...