Word: gulping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sergeant, second Japanese-American (first in Korea) to win the nation's highest award, could only gulp. Then, when the correspondents pressed him for details, he told his story. In April 1951, he and his squad were holding a position near the Imjin River. That night, the Chinese attacked. Miyamura and his men gave ground reluctantly, used up nearly all their ammunition. With only four of his twelve men left, Miyamura collected the remaining ammunition, ordered the others to fall back while he covered their retreat. By the time they had reached safety, Sergeant Miyamura was surrounded...
...reception in 1945, when commissars still talked to Western newsmen, Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov proposed a toast to the Associated Press's Moscow chief, Eddy Gilmore. "You don't like censorship," said Molotov. "What would you say if I proposed reciprocity?" The puzzled Gilmore downed a one-gulp toast to "reciprocity" and, like Molotov, turned the glass upside down over his head to show that it was empty. With a drop or two of vodka still trickling down his nose, Molotov walked on, leaving Gilmore wondering what he meant. Next day the Russians suddenly stopped censorship of newsmen...
...breathing technique resembles the way in which frogs gulp down air. The patient sucks a small amount into his mouth, then forces it through his voice box and into the lungs by a pushing action of the tongue. While the voice box closes to hold the air in the lungs, the patient gulps again, and the process is repeated until he gets a full breath...
Vice President, Cabinet officers and presidential assistants scrambled to Hagerty's rescue. Others stood by and offered suggestions, such as, "Take your pants off, Jim." Since Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby was on hand, Hagerty ignored the advice...
...pancake makeup. His big "cue cards," which had been brought in only after news photographers had been shooed out of the room, were ready before him. On his right sat Attorney General Herbert Brownell, on his left, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson, Treasury Secretary George Humphrey and Welfare Secretary Oveta Gulp Hobby. All but Humphrey, who wore a white shirt, were arrayed in shades of "television blue...