Word: gasps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvey, 63, an aluminum fabricator in Los Angeles, plays his cards close to his chest. No outsiders have ever found out much about the production, profits or prospects of his family-owned Harvey Machine Co. Last week shrewd-dealing Leo Harvey won a pot that made competitors gasp. The pot was a $46 million Government loan designed to make Harvey the fourth biggest U.S. aluminum producer...
...Bowie] heard her gasp, a startled catch of the breath as his hand ran down her arched back with a sleeking motion, encountered the stunning soft abundance of her hips, and drew her hard against him. Mouth crushed to mouth. Perfumed, soft as velvet, hot as fire, her lips trembled under his kiss...
...heaps one unbearable emotion on top of another. The bloody last scene (which happens to be the thirteenth) kills off the hero and heroine. M. Lenormand has reached the worst of his worst. There is nothing more to say. One last, unbearable emotion, and the play ends with a gasp...
Suddenly a hush fell, in anticipation of the colonel's programed speech, "A Message to All Americans." But the Chief was so worn out that he could only gasp a few words of thanks. A few minutes later he bolted for the door. The Chippewas and Editor Chappie were pleased anyway. "We do this," said a chief, "because the colonel has made a wonderful exhibition of his life . . . McCormick is a very wonderful thing and still...
...start in the all-Negro musical Shuffle Along (1922), gave the Strand's customers her latest continental routine. When she came onstage in a skintight, rhinestone-encrusted, white satin gown designed for her by Parisian Couturier Christian Dior, her brown-skinned elegance made bobby-soxers gasp and their boy friends whistle. Anybody who thought a quarter-century in Paris might have made "Josephine" languidly European soon realized his mistake. For all her high-styled gowns, Josephine was still mugging, swaggering and strutting with the free & easy abandon of a pig-tailed kid on a St. Louis street corner...