Word: gaspingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Mayer and Miller then agreed that such a convenience led to (gasp) people taking more food, thus costing Dining Services more money. Let's recap: Dining Services cited students taking more food as a reason not to incorporate a sandwich bar at dinner...
...Here is the author Sally Wriggins' description, in her book "Xuanzang, a Buddhist Pilgrim on the Silk Road," of what's been lost: "The first sight of the valley of the Great Buddha must have made weary travelers gasp - immense cliffs of a soft pastel color, and behind them indigo peaks dusted with snow, rising to a height of 20,000 feet. They saw the reddish cliffs in the cold, clear air; as they came closer, they could make out two gigantic statues of the Buddha standing in niches carved in the mountains. Closer still, they saw that...
...University Health Services (UHS). Unlike the welcomes you normally receive when you stagger into UHS (completely debilitated from the mono that was misdiagnosed as a bladder infection the month before), your parents will be warmly greeted by a room full of not nurse practitioners, not inattentive receptionists, but--gasp--doctors. (Yes, there are doctors at UHS.) Once they've settled in, your parents can learn about UHS's "innovative approaches" to healthcare--presumably these are the approaches they have been hiding from students while using more banal techniques, such as making students wait so long that they get better...
...wordy category of Best Song Written for Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media, "Things Have Changed?" from "Wonder Boys?" written by Bob Dylan, lost out to "When She Loved Me." from "Toy Story 2," written by Randy Newman. There weren't enough people in attendance for the horrified gasp to be as loud as it deserved to be. After Bridgewater handed out her share of awards she then sang a brief bit of "Happy Birthday" to mark co-presenters Charlotte Church's 15th birthday. Church responded with a brief aria. Impressed bby Church's performance, co-host David Foster...
...fans in attendance made a collective gasp as Ruddock inched back to the goal, but sophomore defenseman Pamela Van Reesema raced to the net to shove the puck under Ruddock's pads, forcing the officials to blow the play dead and avoid the fluke goal...