Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bombardier Mike Arpaia yelled "Bombs away!" over the interphone, and followed it with a sigh of relief that came all the way from his fleece-lined boots. The Flying Fortress Mischief Maker was riding 20,000 feet over Reims airdrome and, even as Mike's bombs were thundering into the hangars and repair shops crammed with German planes, heavy gray clouds were closing in and blotting out the field...
...Nothing precipitated and solidified this gold so readily as contact with human flesh heated by passion. The time that Wm. Abrahams was disappointed in love he used to step outdoors when the wind was blowing, and come in again and begin to sigh & sigh, and his brother and I would extract over $1.50 out of every sigh...
Recently, as a seemingly endless column of NTS (Communications) men cadenced their way across the busy intersection near Littauer, the usual traffic and pedestrian jams resulted on either side of the khaki-clad marchers. Suddenly one of the feminine onlookers gave a deep sigh and exclaimed to her friend...
...below, stores and measures the residue. If there is a "moon faced" young man about the house who .discourses upon art, life, love, employs trite French phrases, "inevitably the day will come (even if you he ve to wait for it for many years) when h^ will sigh and murmur...
...most wounds and did not know how to scrub up. "He washed his hands just like any dentist does be fore he sticks his thumb in your mouth." But when Seagrave got a puzzling jaw case, the dentist stepped forward. "I let him go to it with a sigh of relief. By George, that fellow certainly knew his job! By the time he had finished I had something I could really drape that face over." Captain Grindlay from Harvard and the Mayo Clinic appeared. At first he seemed disgruntled to be put under a missionary doctor with native nurses...