Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dwell in nervous tension. Confused reports from press and radio have tended to reduce the meeting of the Security Council to little more than a conflict of personalities. Gromyko frowns and all men stiffen in apprehension. His mouth twitches in the semblance of a smile, and we breathe a sigh of relief. The nation, torn by the violent pulsations of hope and despondency, shows signs of drastic deviations from its former idealism...
...countryman's joy in pruning trees, growing sweet corn and keeping compost pits. President Truman, troubled and hard-pressed by the explosive resignation of Ambassador Pat Hurley, was on the wire. Would the General postpone his well-earned rest to do an emergency job in China? With a sigh, the General looked at his half-unpacked bags. Ten days later, he was on his way to Chungking, 12,000 miles from Leesburg...
...this all? No call to the republican masses? No sanctions, economic or political? No threat of direct intervention? Nothing to follow up the French closing of the border? The Generalissimo and his advisers breathed a long sigh of relief...
Sirs: If, on Feb. 13, you felt a great breeze from out of the West, don't be puzzled. It was just a great sigh of relief from the people of the West that the Old Curmudgeon, Harold L. Ickes, had, at long last, resigned. ... So many of us have lost our homes here in the West through the action of Mr. Ickes in setting aside great tracts for the scenery. . . . ANN COOPER Cody...
...Freddie Potts might be something straight out of the early Booth Tarkington. Slim Robert Walker is wholly likable as the husband. June Allyson is a model little bride, especially when she sidles up to her man with an icebox tray in her hand and says with a happy sigh, "Our first ice cubes...