Word: gasps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there in prickly little pas phrased right on the music, Sarry would suddenly spin out in a phosphorescent series of turns. Then she and Baryshnikov led a smart cakewalk. He threw a snappy salute and then, breaking free, rocketed through the air in flashing cabrioles that made the audience gasp...
...would have garnered the Crimson a share of the Ivy league lead along with Brown and Cornell, after the Big Red's Saturday afternoon loss to the Bruins. While Cleary has plenty of chances left to get to the century mark, Saturday may have been the Crimson's last gasp in the Ivy title chase...
...muscles of his upper respiratory tract became so impaired that breathing would come to a total halt for as long as a minute (doctors are uncertain whether excessive muscle relaxation or contraction is responsible). Then Siegel would awake with a start, and in his groggy state would gasp for air with a loud snore. The loud gasping and snoring were repeated hundreds of times during the night, seriously disturbing his sleep...
...does. Late one night he glimpses a man stuffing what turns out to be the body of a murdered girl into a trash can. Though the view is only in silhouette, Bone has enough of a sense of the man to gasp "It's him!" when later he sees a newspaper photo of Tycoon J.J. Wolfe, a cornpone millionaire from the Ozarks. Such a flash of recognition would, of course, never persuade any court of Wolfe's guilt. But Bone's pal Cutter is convinced-perhaps because he associates the Wolfe type with those who sent...
Passionately articulate on Quebec, Lévesque is intensely guarded in his private life. By temperament he is a loner with few close friends. Separated for the past six years from his wife, he lavishes attention on his three grown children. Born in the bucolic Gaspé Peninsula region of Quebec, Lévesque left law school in 1943 to serve with the U.S. Office of War Information as a European radio correspondent. In the 1950s he moved on to television and speedily became the most popular news commentator in Quebec. Lévesque's pouchy eyes, nervous mannerisms...