Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After Winter, Spring. In Europe, the reaction was dramatic. Britain, appalled by Eisenhower's first failure to give her credit for her effort, breathed an almost audible sigh of relief. Italians remembered their past glories. The non-Communists of France were lifted up. The whole of Western Europe, living under the shadow of the great peril, was more heartened than at any time in four years of daily threats, unending scares. Eisenhower had presented no certainties either to Europe or to his countrymen. He had offered only a risk. Little had happened except that Eisenhower had said what...
...leaves are there so I paint them there." By dint of hard work and fine craftsmanship, Lucioni adds up enough leaves to make convincing trees, and enough trees, barns, hills, etc., to give an accurate idea of what Vermont is like. "There," a lot of summer tourists can sigh, "is my own, my native land...
Boom-ta-ra-ta-ra-ra, ye housewives, don't you sigh...
During World War II, the U.S. Armed Forces radio piped overseas such native noises as Lana Turner's sigh, an umpire shouting "Play Ball!" at Ebbets Field, the whimper of a puppy. Last week, from Gibraltar to Korea, British soldiers & sailors were also hearing the sounds of home. A BBC overseas program called You Asked for It carried such nostalgic sounds as the chime of Southampton's Civic Center clock striking 8, the rumble of the Welsh express going through the Severn tunnel, the Dunstable Salvation Army band blowing itself "pink in the face beside the traffic lights...
...pornographic novels and postcards, and were awaiting the owner's arrival. The owner, however, hastened to a district judge and got a magic writ called an amparo. When he walked into the store soon afterward and the detectives tried to arrest him, he produced the amparo. With a sigh of frustration, the cops shut the books and went away. The bookseller could be reasonably sure that they would not bother him again for another three months...