Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kindles the great. (sigh...
...opening bars of the Star-Spangled Banner) they depend heavily on consonances. An upsetting virus in music is dissonance, a combination of sounds full of sonorous tension which may produce anything from vague impatience to acute aural distress. When composers wish to disturb their listeners, make them weep, sigh or foam at the mouth, they do it with dissonances...
Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia heaved a sigh and said: "I'm glad it's over. Now we can read the funnies." For three days a delivery strike had imposed a news dimout on the biggest newspaper town in the nation, completely shutting off distribution of all Greater New York's leading dailies...
During this month, the War Department will finally make clear the program of student service which should have been functioning since the first undergraduate was drawn from a college campus into a training camp. When it does, all University Hall may visibly sigh, for the burden which it has borne almost solely for a year will be lifted from its shoulders, and the difficult job of gudidance during a confused period of transition terminated...
This cast manages to shatter the traditional aloofness of Boston audiences. Every time Manningham tries to strangle his wife and is foiled by the entrance of Sergeant Rough, a lengthy sigh rises from the orchestra and the balconies. At several points the staid Bostonians booed the villain and shouted directions at the hero...