Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...native New Yorker, still stubbornly seeking out the old, the fusty, and the slightly uncomfortable amidst the encroaching wilderness of stainless steel and blank glass, sighed a wistful sigh. The movers and shakers took no notice, determinedly pressed forward...
...queen cities, was smug and hopeful; but Florence, the earliest capital of the modern world, was merely relieved that the 19th Century was over. Italy's nationalist rebirth had indeed been glorious. Progress was everywhere; some Florentines thought that there was too much of it. With a sigh and a shrug Florence's Corriere Italiano saw the old century off: "Tomorrow a new year begins a new century we know nothing about. It does not matter. It is a new year. That is enough...