Word: sighed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...note, goodbyes are said. Olivier prepares to return to the country, his wife and his pool, as inviting as a baby's bath. There is a final thank-you to "Lord Olivier," and he utters a sound, difficult to describe but impossible to forget, somewhere between a sorry sigh and an angry bellow. "Lord Olivier becomes a bit boring, you know." Then, as he tells everyone but delivery boys and chimney sweeps, he says: "Call me Larry." -By Gerald Clarke
...when baseball plans to let its tallest and most erect commissioner go, at least he will be able to cheer at the ball yard again, a sore deprivation these past 14 years. "I can't have a favorite team or a rooting interest," he once said with a sigh. "Sad, isn't it?" For Kuhn...
Then Begin called. He said, referring to the new version I had shown Dayan and Barak: "I will accept the letter you have drafted on Jerusalem." I breathed a sigh of relief; it seemed that the last obstacle had been removed...
...safer and more decent, just as a nation's whole criminal justice system may be made more coherent. Imprisoning people less shamefully is a worthy enough goal. Lowered expectations need not signify a national moral bankruptcy. For the U.S. and its ideas about prison, a deep breath and a sigh may be the beginning of an overdue maturity. ?By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Jay Branegan/Chicago and Anne Constable/Atlanta, with other bureaus
With a self-satisfied sigh of relief, the government proclaims every day in the press that "normalization" has come. The government claims that it has arrested seven people in Warsaw who were involved with Radio Solidarity and shut down the clandestine station, but underground transmitters continue to taunt the authorities with short FM broadcasts. By some estimates, 1,700 underground publications appear regularly. More than 100 illegal books have been published in Warsaw alone...