Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Biographer Maisie Ward was entitled to a contented sigh when she finished Gilbert Keith Chesterton nine years ago. It was (and is) the most thorough account ever written of that man-mountain of modern English letters. But Author Ward's book was hardly off the presses before she began to find fascinating new bits and pieces of Chestertoniana. Return to Chesterton is her 336-page postscript...
...Commonwealth, men & women who honored Britain's dead King observed two minutes of silence. Buses halted; miners stopped work at coal faces; passengers in British planes stood up. As Union Jacks fluttered to full staff once more, a tweedy British lady drew her breath in a quick sigh. "There," she announced, starting briskly for home, "the flags are up again. Life must...
...Little man at control panel in corner narrowly averts tragedy by switching Old 19th onto another track. The 20th starts up. Goes at full gallup toward Old 19th. Tension is high. Control man pushes button and 20th takes first right turn, missing Old 19th by inches. Crowd breathes sigh of relief. Gamins boo, suddenly spot me. I duck behind peppermint striped door. Shapely young thing almost dressed in red asks me sweetly if I want to see Santa Claus. Gamins cheer from doorway. Little girl cries. I smile weakly...
...careers-you sigh nostalgically that today's generation has no adventurous, imaginative lads ready to seek the weird heights, far away from the stereotyped big-company jobs. Well, your . . . generation has substituted oafish earnestness and the plodder's mentality for ability, brilliance, drive and talent . . . After all, it's easier to take the plodding, army-like promotions and security of big companies with two outings a year . . . live in a little house in the suburbs with a wife in Peck & Peck tweeds who knows all about zinnias and planned parenthood, and have two dirty-faced moppets playing...
Sparks & Singes. The democratic working was thanks primarily to one man, a tough-minded, energetic political pinwheel named Ramon Magsaysay (rhymes with bog-sigh-sigh). Magsaysay, who is only 44, first flashed into national view in September 1950, when President Quirino appointed him Secretary of Defense, and gave him broad authority. The sparks he has been shooting off since then have singed the once mighty Huks, ignited the tempers of bigwigs in his own Liberal Party, and fired the ardor of the common Filipino all over the islands...