Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand, are equally ineffective because they have swallowed secularism whole. "Liberalism did not propose a radical criticism of [U.S.] culture in the light of the Christian faith. Instead, it proposed a radical criticism of the Christian faith in the light of modern culture. . . . It expressed itself chiefly in a sigh of intellectual relief when it heard wise men declare that Christianity was just as simple as doing good and that the profundities of the Gospel were, after all, virtually meaningless...
...hair-raising sound effects, these pots show birth and death, work and play, war and worship. One famed example of the Peruvian pottery art shows a surgeon at work on a woman's back. When filled with water and tipped back & forth, the pot gives a long-drawn sigh, then a loud scream of pain...
...Army authorities admit there is little they can do about it, but last week they breathed a deep sigh of relief. Under the terms of the French loan, all surplus property in French depots is to be turned over to France within the next three months. Result: a whacking percentage of the current total of 150,000 P.W.s in the Western Base will either be sent back to Germany or placed under French jurisdiction...
...them. Sweeter to a pig farmer's ear than the ethereal fluting of the prairie lark is a sow's "pumping," the regular ugh, ugh, ugh, which means that the litter has discovered how to suckle and that the sow, heaving over with a sigh to expose her batteries of teats, has taken on the thankless task. In a fortnight the pig population on the Kuester farm may bounce from about 40 to something like...
...There stood an enormous lady giant. She was a good 20 feet tall, with nasty little red eyes and scraggly hair. . . . She carried Jack into the castle and set him to washing the giant's supper dishes from the night before [deep sigh']. And no hot water! As he was finishing, he heard a terrifying sound. Clump, clump, clump! Someone with size 36 shoes was coming down the stairs...