Word: gasps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Grand Canyon), rises in the mountains of Wyoming. It floods in summer, when the high snows melt, and when the desert lands gasp for moisture. In July a spectacular sheet of white water, a quarter of a mile wide, 17 feet thick and twice as high as Niagara, spills over the top of Grand Coulee Dam. In time, this overflow will be channeled off to irrigate half a million acres of desert without sacrificing one kilowatt of electrical output. Only then will the New Deal's resettlement dream come true, in the blossoming in the sagebrush...
...imaginative and lacks deep conviction. But her technique and voice are still basically excellent. Joseph Wiseman, as the court Peeping Tom who spreads scandal, talks inexorably and monotonously--like a passing freight train. At times he varies his performance with a pseudo-emotional crescendo, usually preceded by a strained gasp. Henry Daniell, as the king, is the most polished of the performers; he has an impressive bearing and a versatile voice. But the virtues of the acting do not compensate for the essential sterility of the play...
...part of Mrs. Keith, Claudette Colbert is at last emancipated from the kind of role where she has to choose between George Brent and a career. She gets the chance to have a miscarriage, sweat out intermittent attacks of malaria, crawl on her back under a barbed-wire fence, gasp and stagger through the jungle, fight off a would-be assaulter, get beaten, slapped, and spit upon. Miss Colbert does all these things convincingly and manages as well to brig charm and warmth to the scenes with her husband and little...
...witness stand, Mrs. Borroto's private nurse, Elizabeth Rose, repudiated an earlier statement that she was certain Abbie Borroto was already dead (TIME, March 6). There had been short gasps from the body on the bed, "a louder gasp" when Dr. Sander inserted the needle, she said. Other hospital attendants attested to "muscular twitchings"; two doctors declared that an air embolism could have been lethal; other witnesses testified that Dr. Sander had indicated by his remarks that he himself thought he had ended a dwindling life...
...famed in Philadelphia that when a group of public-spirited citizens started a nonprofit school for adult education in 1941, Junto seemed the logical name for it. Last week, the Junto told of making a business deal in its own self-interest that would have brought an amazed gasp from shrewd old Ben Franklin himself...