Word: sighed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...square before the Mahdi's tomb, the poor cooked their free camel and ox meat on great bonfires. The big war drums boomed through the night. After seven days of merrymaking, the husbands would claim their brides, the British could sigh with relief. For then the Mahdi's dervishes, wives and all, would melt back into the deserts and fields of the Sudan...
...Gets Girl. This is the home of Arthur Rank, his wife, Nell, and one daughter, Ursula, 27. (The other daughter, Mrs. Fred Packard, lives in Hollywood.) "The Rank love story," sigh friends, "is one of the most beautiful ever told." The Ranks are, in fact, two exceedingly happy multimillionaires. They are inseparable. Nell, who has contributed her millions and her shrewd advice to her husband's moviemaking, accompanied...
...With a sigh, Vag circled University Hall and beamed a troubled glance on Old Jawn. Well that was all right--he was still unbowed in his solitary splendor. At least we have our tradition, Vag thought, but now, Fair Harvard, when thy sons to thy jubilee throng, the masculine spirit of year will be somewhat diluted. Those mellow occasions when the alumni used to contemplate "the good times we had with Copey" would have a strange air about them now when they realized there were others (he straightened his tie) who shared the same memories. Was that fair? There would...
...Brooklyn, rough-tough Johnny Torrio, ex-Chicago bootleg king and Al Capone's sometime mentor, who quit the rackets after he was shot up in 1925, heaved a big sigh of relief. At his solicitation, the FBI had finally rounded up two men accused of sending him a threatening letter last September...
...spectators exhaled a mass sigh of relief as the couple stumbled off deliriously, hand in hand. Eleven prisoners, muttering to each other, pushed on down the street past the muttering crowd: "Unpredictable Russians . . . incredible ... I can't understand. ... I don't understand the Russians...