Word: sighed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steel industry loosed a pent-up sigh. "I guess we're all relieved," said a U.S. Steel executive, "that the President took the easy way out. If he put controls on now, it would be as hard for the Government to administer as it would be for us to carry out. I think he got pretty good advice, for once...
...Evelyn," Editor Cyril Connolly was once heard to sigh, "has been cruel, really very cruel to me." Evelyn and Cyril were not speaking at the time. For Evelyn Waugh's well-honed tongue is as celebrated as his snobbishness, social climbing and personal courage. Says an equally cruel contemporary: "One can find Evelyn's biography in the dedications of his books, each displaying a further step in his social progress." His first book, Rossetti; His Life and Works, was dedicated to Evelyn Gardner (fourth daughter of the first & last Baron Burghclere, and later Mrs. Evelyn Waugh...
...close of last week's pageant, attended by Queen Elizabeth, St. Albans' headmaster, ruddy-faced Thomas William Marsh, allowed himself a nostalgic sigh. Said he: "St. Albans will be very dull next week, when everyone returns to bowler hats...
...political battlefield of Europe it would be the climactic tactic of the war of nerves-the cunning offer of a salve for the nerves the Communists themselves have shredded. There would be a deep, unreasoning sigh of relief from millions of Europeans. It would rise spontaneously and without reflection and it would be heard happily in the halls of the Kremlin. With rehearsed righteousness, a picture would be drawn of the West appearing before a Communist bar of justice, and if the accused did not agree to a 'reasonable' solution, then the jury would be asked to pronounce...
Certainly some conductors (and some famous ones) make the strings weep when the composer only intended them to sigh. But if all that is needed is to follow the composer's explicit directions, what's all the fuss about conducting? To the average listener, it might seem that a mechanical metronome would serve as well as a human one. There are other conscientious conductors, just as selflessly anxious as Toscanini to express the composer's intent. Why does Toscanini tower over them...