Word: gasps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last Gasp...
...Gaulle's nuclear experts and modern warfare men, however, were appalled. They insist that France's nuclear force will be only a deterrent, or else a last-gasp weapon; if they fail to deter, and France is falling, then and only then are the bombers to be used to drag the attacker under with France. They cannot be used on routine, tit-for-tat bombing missions as the war games suggested. As for the frantic, 15-weapon battlefield broadside, so lavish a use of atomic weapons in so small an area (particularly on French soil) amounted to nothing...
...keep in shape for track. Minutes later the Mustangs got another and jumped into the lead, 26-25. Now it was Staubach's turn again. Circling right end, he picked up 11 yds. and ran head first into a herd of Mustangs. Slowly, the tacklers unpiled-and a gasp went up from the stands. There lay Staubach, stunned, on the ground...
...Home." Hardly a seat remained in the stands by 1 p.m. when Gurney's Lotus took off in the time trials to decide starting positions. A gasp went up when the announcer gave his speed: an average of 109 m.p.h. for the short one-mile track, almost 3 m.p.h. better than the fastest ever posted by an Offy at Trenton. Then came Clark, just a fraction faster to set still another record...
...while Warsaw held fast to its reputation as the only city in the world where people really like contemporary music. Berberian sang Circles, a free and atonal composition by her husband, Luciano Berio, in which even punctuation marks in an E. E. Cummings poem have musical counterparts-an aspirate gasp, for example, indicating an exclamation point. Warsaw was delighted...