Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...triple alliance between the three parties. Nonetheless, the vote was expected to trim the sails of M.F.A. militants. "My guess is that we are in for a period of relative quiet," said a leading M.F.A. moderate last week. "When the elections were over, you could almost hear the sigh of relief within the M.F.A...
...many poor dreams of glory. West wrote with fury, but without rancor or condescension. "It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible the results are," runs the novel's most famous passage. "But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous." By that standard, John Schlesinger's film is nothing less than a tragedy...
...listen closely as you pass University Hall today you are liable to hear a collective sigh of relief. It's the sigh that comes when you can give 130 freshman their bottom three House choices and still manage to avoid an insurrection...
...lights. Ready on the fountains. Action. "This is the day God has made," beams the Rev. Robert Schuller as he bounds toward the pulpit. A glass panel separating the walk-in sanctuary from the drive-in sanctuary lumbers open. As a dozen fountains spurt skyward, a collective sigh from 1,700 worshipers at Garden Grove Community Church in Southern California announces the start of another Hour of Power...
...most task force members the Thursday vote brought a sigh of relief--it may add a few appointees not so amenable to the task force line, but nonetheless, the vote will enable the existing members to continue their tenure on the force...