Word: sighed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...itself to be run by the disciples of Karl Marx." one councillor declared, referring to the "deep-seated and far-reaching conspiracy which has as its aim the capturing of the very government of the city itself." Although Harvard did not deign to counter this charge, everyone breathed a sigh of relief when the resolution turned out to have been only a publicly stunt designed by one of the councillors to pigeonhole other legislation before the Council...
...enthusiasm to borrow from alien traditions, Catholic and Protestant experimenters may pass each other in opposite directions. Recently, an Episcopal priest gleefully told Diekmann how his own church had taken to the new practice of genuflecting during the Creed and the consecration of the elements. Diekmann heaved a weary sigh: Catholicism is just at the point of discarding the genuflection altogether...
...been filled with charges and countercharges of abandonment and adultery. Now she will have custody of their two children, about $55,000 a year in alimony and the $250,000 Manhattan town house, where she will settle down to complete a fictional account of her experiences in architecture. Title (sigh): Not in Lone Splendor...
...educational consultant to the Sultan, to undergo examination for a suspected tumor of the brain. The suspicion proved baseless, and after six weeks in London's National Hospital, Burgess was released, sound as a pound. In most men, the experience would have produced no more than a sigh of relief. In Burgess, it excited the wild flight of imagination that produced this novel...
...June 1 election neared, provisional President Héctor García-Godoy could afford a sigh of satisfaction. "I feel sure," he said, "that the next President will have some basis for order and stability." Armed Forces Minister General Enrique Pérez y Pérez, under whom the army has become more transigent, promised last week that the armed forces "will respect the popular will." Dominicans, facing their first free elections since 1962, could only hope that the mood would last...