Word: gasps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agent need fear again dire consequences if caught in the act. The principle has been established: if the U.S. arrests a Soviet spy, the Soviets can retaliate and create a crisis situation. Unlike some of his predecessors, including--gasp!--Jimmy Carter, this president does not believe in the principle of not trading innocent Americans for foreign spies...
Ronald Reagan, wimp? Dove? More wishy-washy than (gasp!) Jimmy Carter? Not only were those strange-sounding accusations ringing out last week, they were coming from people who are normally among the President's staunchest supporters. Reagan, they charged, is letting his eagerness for an arms-control deal and a summit with Mikhail Gorbachev prevent him from precipitating a full-scale showdown with the Kremlin over the seizure of Nicholas Daniloff, the American reporter being detained in Moscow on what the U.S. regards as trumped-up espionage charges. Why, they asked, was Reagan being so cautious and pragmatic about...
...group of summer school students, working with Professor Stephen Williams and John D. Stubbs, Jr. '80 found an assortment of refuse that would make the most hardened dorm crewer gasp...
Edward Sweda, the state health lobbyist for the Group Against Smoking Pollution (GASP), was optimistic about the ordinance's chances. "With the momentum that we've acquired today with the Surgeon General, we're confident that we will be successful in getting it passed this year," he said. Sweda also said he expected a "milder version" of the proposal to pass in the Massachusetts legislature this year...
Whooping cough, named for the distinctive sound made by its victims as they gasp for air between bouts of violent coughing, was until the 1940s a major killer of children. Caused by a bacterial infection that increases the amount of mucus in the lungs, the disease sometimes results in convulsions and death. Over the past four decades, however, pertussis has been largely subdued in developed nations by mass inoculations with a vaccine made from killed pertussis bacteria. Now doctors annually pump some 18 million doses of the vaccine into U.S. children--usually in the form of a D.P.T. shot...