Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...convene on the constitutional date of July 20, had bowed to a decree by Conservative President Ospina Pérez forbidding the meeting but granting the Congressmen's usual 600-peso monthly allowance. Some of the Liberals did meet-in the Hotel Granada Rose Room. Sneered El Sigh's columnist, Julio Abril: "They deliberated over a bottle of Vat 69, taking the matter not only with great calm but also with soda...
...year ago, the picture was demoted to a dark corner of the National Gallery's canteen; only a handful of sentimental oldtimers objected. Last week the painting was banished to the vaults. Its disappearance was little noted. London's Evening Standard fetched a mild editorial sigh: "Many people, of course, maintain that this is not a 'good picture.' But it is, at least, a sort of institution, and a very English affair at that...
...from Washington, was, as usual, quite prepared to make his own decisions in his new command. During World War II he had been an aloof figure who avoided interference from his nominal superiors, worked out his problems in his own way. His independence had once prompted Franklin Roosevelt to sigh: "I wish MacArthur would tell me these things...
...sharply and whispered to Tory Whip Patrick Buchan-Hepburn. When the Speaker repeated the question Churchill and Buchan-Hepburn raised a loud Tory "no," and the Speaker called for a division of the House. The result: Aye, 304; No, 299. From the Labor benches came an audible sigh of relief...
...said Acheson with a sigh, "all that is changed." He had only to glance at his leather-bound log of the week's business to know just how much it had changed. The log was crammed with slam-bang protests, denunciations and propaganda broadsides from Iron Curtain countries, and the U.S. replies, just as forceful, bouncing back with the speed of rockets. At week's end his docket of urgent communications looked something like this...