Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With scarcely an audible sigh, mesmerized Finland sank into the arms of Nazi Germany. The Germans took over with only a few companies of second-rate occupation troops to back up the fast and foamy talk of Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. The Nazis' proposition was simple: Germany would send six divisions if the Finns would keep up the fight and agree not to sign a separate peace...
Echoed another Swiss paper, Berner Tagwacht: "In reply to Goebbels' war cry: 'Let them come,' most Germans say with a suppressed sigh: 'If they would only come...
Just before dark, the sleek, fast B-26 Marauder circled her English air base and slipped in to a smooth landing. Technical Sergeant William L. Stuart, a taciturn, red-haired Texan, heaved an eloquent sigh, rubbed his grease-stained hands together, got out his tools and prepared to go to work...
...more than $600 million since the first land grant act was passed. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, which has netted a total of $23 million from land-grant sales, returned $40 million in lower freight rates to the Government in 1943 alone. Last week railroaders breathed a hopeful sigh as the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee reported out the Boren bill. Based on the premise that the roads have now repaid their subsidy in full, it would put an end to the system of Government rebates...
With a politely imperceptible sigh, both Houses of Parliament joined in issuing an invitation (the first in history) to the U.S. Congress to send a delegation to sit a while in Westminster. Probably the invitation would be accepted. Probably, when it was, it would result in a great many kindly misunderstandings on both sides. But perhaps real understanding would be furthered...