Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behind the thick lenses. As the prosecutor summed up-about the missing typewriter, the assumed name, the charwoman's scrap of paper, the fingerprints-the bishop clutched his chair, and glanced nervously from judge to defense counsel. Finally, last week, it was over, and all Sweden breathed a sigh of relief...
...happy little moan escaped the lips." She can embellish even the fluffiest souffle with her brandied prose: "It came perfumed of the hot sugared fruit and toned with the magic of some liqueur . . . The waiter's spoon dipped in. and the souffle responded with a rapturous, half-hushed sigh as it settled softly to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream...
...with, squandered, plastered on for one's adornment. Literary words imperfectly grasped, meanings assumed from bare inspection, monsters spawned for a trivial cause-these are but a few of the signs of squandering . . . The advertiser bids you 'slip your feet into these easygoing leisuals and breathe a sigh of real comfort' . . . The New Yorker spotted a movie theater sign on which 'adultery' was used to mean 'adulthood.' From an English periodical I learn that some new houses 'affront the opposite side of the street.' If Mrs. Malaprop is going to become...
...People Like Americans. In many ways, the Magsaysay victory was a U.S. victory. In 1950 when the menace of the Communist-led Huks threatened Manila itself, U.S. diplomats persuaded President Quirino to hand the Huk-fighting job to Ramon Magsaysay (pronounced mog-sigh-sigh), then the Liberal Party Representative from Zambales (TIME, Nov. 26, 1951 et seq.). A carpenter's son who got his engineering degree at the University of the Philippines, for a time worked in a U.S. Army motor pool, and then led a jungle army of 10,000 guerrillas against the Japanese, Magsaysay soon...
...Boston, he became Harvard's professor of biological chemistry and head of a research laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital. Krebs was summarily fired from his university post by the Nazis; fortunately he was invited to Cambridge University, where he arrived "with virtually nothing but a sigh of relief and a few books." Later he moved to Sheffield as professor of biochemistry...