Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...needed that dictionary of "cat" jargon-if only to help me understand what my children are talking about. I deplore the senselessness of it all, sigh resignedly, and wish that today's bopsters would be more specific and less prolific...
...session for 28 out of 34 hours, patiently smoothing over differences, the FMCS mediator eventually got labor and management to accept its own proposal for a 10? package wage increase. Last week, just 30 minutes before the final strike deadline, the pact was agreed on, and Washington breathed a sigh of relief...
...rhythm seems to shift gears. Bits of familiar harmonies reappear. In a few moments, it is all over, and the music relaxes. Desmond returns for a bit of polyphonic banter with the relaxed piano, finally swings into a recapitulation of the introduction, and the audience sits back with a sigh before it applauds...
...string section gave off an aura as warm as the old rose of the eleven cellos. The Concertgebouw made less noise than the best U.S. orchestras, and its climaxes were never ear-piercing. Rather, it seemed to inhale smoothly, reach its peaks easily, then relax with a sigh instead of an exhausted gasp...
...intimacy of detail that makes fine reading even of such simple events as pitching camp or building a fire. Author Lott spares the reader nothing-every gush of blood from a stricken buffalo's mouth, the way a carcass explodes in the sun "with a great pop and sigh," the mechanical difficulties of skinning an Indian. This is no mere western yarn, and there are no heroics about Lett's hunters: Charley kills because he finds his manhood in killing, Sandy with an uneasy distaste for the waste. Though the dialogue is occasionally as awkward as a bull...