Word: gasps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...around in confusion, roar approval, fidget and scratch as Antony continues and like well-trained beasts roar again. When Antony whips out Caesar's blood-stained toga, which looks for all the world as it it's been smeared with strawberry ripple ice-cream, the mob gives its practiced gasp, but the audience, instead of being awestruck, chuckles...
...lady's last gasp may be her best moment...
When scholars dare extend their scope as did James Ralston Skinner in "The ancient of days; the measure of the heavens and the earth by means of the only unit of measure the British inch" (Cincinnati, 1873), one can only gasp at the audacity with which the cataloguer writes on the card of "The book of God; the Apocalypse of Adams-Cannes," that "The writer appears to be insane...
...last gasp Army dramatics were made possible by some exciting preliminaries. In the 400-yard intermediate hurdles. Harvard's Lynch held a slim lead over Cadet Kent Allen but collided with the next to last hurdle, allowing Allen to saeak in first under the wire...
Mark Meyers' contribution, "Faint Hearts and Fair Ladies," is a short, personal spoof of Harvard emancipation, "the last gasp of the parietals issue." It is a nice bit of whimsy until you realize that Mr. Meyers is serious, the last gasp of provincialism. His facetious suggestion that the University herd streetwalkers into the senior common rooms might once have been funny, but is now only blainel...