Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordered by the partners of Parker & Co., a Manhattan aviation-insurance firm, to celebrate Managing Partner R. Leslie Cizek's 30th anniversary with the company. No sooner did the ad appear than Wall Streeters started burning up the phone clamoring for their very own gold putters. With a sigh, Tiffany Board Chairman Walter Hoving announced that the store had ordered more of the $1,475 clubs for the men who want everything. And that it also had a less expensive model in base metals, with a silver jacket. Price...
Even Front Runner Jack Kennedy has been known to sigh in private that he might wind up on the short end of a Stevenson-Kennedy ticket. In the fall of 1959 Adlai Stevenson, twice victorious nominee, twice defeated presidential candidate, has as great a potential for the Democratic nomination...
Once again Charles de Gaulle was making great issues serve French ends. Oddly enough, the other participants in the summit seemed to react with a sigh, not an outburst. Moscow was heard plaintively saying that, like Dwight Eisenhower, it still thought the sooner a summit the better...
...question of Red China's admission to the U.N. But this year India's V. K. Krishna Menon, whose government is unhappy about Red China's aggressive moves along India's northern frontier, put up only a pro forma fight for Peking. With a sigh of relief, the Assembly quickly adopted a U.S. resolution barring Communist Chinese membership by practically the same vote as last year...
...talented ham can jump and shout without trampling the daisies. James Mason smacks and snuffles his way through the fevered minds of Andrea del Sarto, Fra Lippo Lippi and the tomb-haunted bishop in Poetry of Browning (Caedmon) in a reading that can illuminate a character with a sigh...