Word: gasps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...message of sympathy addressed "to the President of Spain wherever he may be." This arrived as the President was sitting in his small office at the Palacio National in Madrid, declaring that "The Spanish Republic will maintain political and religious liberty!" The Spanish Republic was actually at its last gasp and the President's wife had fled to the seaport of Alicante, haven for refugees from Madrid. There she was taking care of child victims of Spain's civil war with the help of the two daughters of enormous Socialist Indalecio Prieto, Minister of Air and Marine. Also...
...After the Emperor had given Geneva to understand for several days that he would not plead Ethiopia's cause himself before the Assembly, abruptly at the last moment the King of Kings announced that he was entering the fray in person, will "fight to the last gasp of breath...
...slapping their rumps with a wet towel, tossing them, artificial respiration. Dr. Wilson: "The lapse of one minute may be enough, through the absence of oxygen, to damage permanently the cells of the respiratory centre. Once the drug reaches the new born infant's general circulation, the respiratory gasp takes place in less than twelve seconds. Three constant reactions occur within one to four seconds before the respiratory gasp-an increase in muscle tonus, a stiffening of the arms, and a slight opisthotonos [arching of the back]." Commented Dr. George William Kosmak, conscientious editor of the American Journal...
...Irish votes by promising to "bust King George in the snoot" if that monarch did not mind his own business. With the submergence of Chicago's blatant Mayor in 1931, the Irish Question seemed to have become virtually extinct in U. S. politics. Last week a dying gasp was heard in the U. S. House of Representatives...
Strong nurses stripped him of his clothes, lifted him writhing and shrilling, plumped him into a tub of warm water. He gave a gasp, ceased struggling. His eyelids fell halfway down over his popped eyes. He was dead...