Word: gasps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miracle-the capitalist, citizen-controlled U.S. economy -confounded the doubters. Only a few months ago President Kennedy had uttered bleak warnings of recession. Academicians and government brain-trusters talked worriedly of "high-level stagnation." When the economy got bouncy late last year, they said it was only a "last gasp." Some gasp. As of last week, almost all indicators were still on the rise-and the surge had very little help from government...
This retort can only be feeble, compared with what I feel. I wish I had the talent to adequately convey how revolted I am by this kind of hooliganism. Consider this letter a panicky gasp, on my part, for some clean...
...dramatic treat of getting to pitch himself down a flight of stairs if he cares to. In Europe, Christoff and Petrov die quietly, as if by surprise, but the Met's staging invites a good fall. London, the intellectual Boris, dies intelligently-a heave, a cry, a little gasp, and he's gone, rolling gently down the stairs. Hines, though, plays it for all he's worth. Clawing the air, grasping his heaving chest, he cries his final line ("Forgive me! Forgive me!") and pitches himself headlong down the stairs. Surely it will...
This was not the last gasp of a tired old man; it was the seasoned judgment of a historian who had seen what ideology can do. Namier felt that most ideologies were shams, and was prepared to prove it. This he did by writing detailed biographies of innumerable people to show that their motives were rarely the ones they professed. Namier's history bulged with facts and figures and so many quotes that he often seems not to be writing at all but excerpting. Yet Namier revolutionized the writing of history and became in the eyes of his British...
What had happened? It was quite simple. Every time the Democratic 87th got ready to die reasonably, a senior Democratic Solon demanded the right to take one last, long gasp...