Word: sighed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frequently, he uses an expression that disassociates him from the proceedings: a visual sigh suggesting that this dame is boring the life out of him, too; or a shake of the head, wondering where the devil this geek got all that garbage. He is often at his best when his material is worst-a handy knack for a man who has to come up with 60 laughs a minute. When a gag clunks to the floor, he'll say: "Never buy jokes from people on streets. Give 'em a quarter but never buy a joke from...
...With a sigh, Manager Bauer took Barber out and waved in Reliever Stu Miller. The next Detroit batter rapped Miller's first pitch up the middle for an easy third out-except that Second Baseman Mark Belanger dropped the force throw as another Detroit run crossed the plate. Final score: Tigers 2, Orioles 1; thus putting Barber and Miller into the records as the first two pitchers in baseball history to combine on a no-hitter in nine innings and still lose the game. Said Barber wistfully: "Well, if I ever do get another one, I'd like...
...dynamic finish, and the Crimson netmen could sigh with relief -- M.I.T. was not going to win its first point against Harvard in three years. The final score would be 9-0, once again...
...With a sigh of relief, moneymen from Wall Street to Main Street heard last week that President Johnson had appointed William McChesney Martin, 60, to his fifth four-year term as chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. "This bank is delighted," said a Chase Manhattan senior vice president. So was First National City, whose president, George S. Moore, said of Martin: "This is a time when his experience is needed." No less enthusiastic were foreign bankers, who also see Martin as a staunch defender of the sound dollar that is so necessary to their economic wellbeing...
...Mary Martyr's spiritual sister is the teardabbing heroine of Dan Greenburg's How to Be a Jewish Mother, whose "Technique of Basic Suffering" ranges from mastering the "proper position of hands during execution of daily sigh" to staying up all night "to prepare a big breakfast" for the family...