Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their 31 children began the lament Plymouth had heard after two other Nottingham explosions-in 1890 (eight dead) and in 1910 (seven dead). While gas-masked rescuers battled for their bodies, the names of the dead-Craynik, Parker, Zonobrowski, Bockus, Wilde, Ostrowski, Lewis-ran through the dark like a sigh...
Some ads (like Wheaties') are good for a laugh, some (like Packard's) are good for a sigh, and some (like Listerine's) for a shiver of apprehension, but very few are good just to look at. Among those few are the ads dreamed up by youthful designer Paul Rand. Rand packed 102 of his best jobs (plus a few stilted pages of art philosophizing) into Thoughts on Design, published last week (Wittenborn...
That last sigh was drowned out by the fanfare of Wallace's first editorial, full of brave, sometimes disjointed rhetoric. Wrote Wallace: "I prefer to accept the willingness of the Soviet leaders to think more and more in democratic terms. . . . We cannot hide the weaknesses in our democracy. If we take steps to overcome these weaknesses, then I believe the Russians, believing in the genuineness of our democracy, will move toward greater political freedom...
...hugg'd me close, and, with a Sigh...
...helmet, and prepared to boot the ball from such a formidable distance, but the gasped a moment later when a long low kick sailed toward the uprights. The ball struck the cross-bar and bounded back on the field, and the Elephants lowered their trunks, gave a long sigh of relief, and took over...