Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Franklin Roosevelt last week appointed a new Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air, a few settled matrons, now going on 45, were able to turn back to their memory books and heave a historical sigh. They were women who in July 1916, were young belles at Long Island's fashionable Locust Valley...
...public faith in the Government was enough to make paper money a satisfactory coin of the realm. His side won. Inflation did occur and the national economy limped along until 1819, when, with Vansittart's views in complete disfavor, the country returned to the gold standard with a sigh of relief...
...Texas, tall, tanned Lieut. Governor Coke Stevenson, onetime teamster and banker, a lawyer and ranch-owner on the side, will take over the State House. Many a harried Texas legislator will sigh peacefully, glad that Lee O'Daniel is gone at last...
Last week the Navy heaved-hoed a tremendous sigh of relief, ravenously seized the opportunity afforded by a routine brush-off of so-some Inactive Reservists to dump Lieut. Commander Winchell over the side. Officially he was given his choice of either resigning his reserve commission by July i or standing by to take active duty wherever & whenever the Navy thinks best...
...took a deep breath and let it out in a slow sigh. He closed the history text and pushed away the notebook. Those were the days, he thought. The Renaissance, the rebirth of an old culture and the birth of a new one; that was the time when he should have lived. He would certainly have been another Da Vinci, an artist at everything. He could see himself now; architect, inventor, poet--Vag leaned back perilously in his chair--the full man. What chance did he have today--the chair jerked forward again--in a regimented world where...