Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Convert Budenz, whose excellent record as a labor organizer includes 21 arrests, issued a statement that sounded like a long sigh of relief: "Reason and faith have led to this happy step. . . . The privilege of returning to the sacraments is one to be deeply prized; it is, after a long journey, the true returning home...
...feel like I'm 100 years old," said 33-year-old Byron Nelson. He limped into Dayton's Moraine Country Club, bowed down by a lame back and too much golf. Then, with a sigh, he pulled himself together and hobbled 36 holes in 6 under par to tie for medal honors in the Professional Golfers' Association Championship. That still left a long row of match play to hoe, and Nelson was feeling no spryer...
Mild and Mellow. In San Francisco, lean Harry Bridges, in sardonic good humor, sat back and read his congratulatory messages (some from employers). Both West Coast business and labor heaved a sigh of relief. Employers who would never learn to love Harry Bridges had learned how to live with him and like it. The case against him had become a nuisance and a bore...
...music proves the biggest disappointment. Emmerick Kalman's score cannot make up its mind whether it is trying to imitate Strauss's "Rosalinda" or the Rodgers technique. It falls somewhere in the middle. However, two or three songs are likely candidates for popular favor, "Sigh by Night," "One Last Love Song," and "Treat a Woman Like a Drum...
...engine. I watch the bullets creep up toward the locomotive, and my plane is usually about 25 feet above the cars before I get enough shots into the boiler. Some of the locos blow up a few feet and settle back on the tracks as if heaving a big sigh. Others just puke steam-I only claim them as damaged...