Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Southern is more than adequate in this immensely difficult title role, capturing Macbeth's humanity without taking the edge off his viciousness; and his genuine British accent caressing the verse makes you sigh with relief and pleasure. Select moments of Southern's performance, such as Macbeth's monologue immediately following his murder of King Duncan, could even be mistaken for professional theater...
President Reagan will be heaving a sigh of relief in Washington today because Brown students voted last night not to impeach him by a narrow 51 percent...
...years you can flip through the pages and remember your Harvard years. You can sit your grandchildren on your knees, point to your face in the varsity soccer picture and reminisce about the day you saved by booting in the tie-breaking goal. Or you can grin and sigh as you find a candid shot of your old roommates beaning each other with rotten vegetables in the Adams House Raft Race...
Whatever the case, Dickerman retired Brown on a lazy fly to right, and Harvard breathed a collective sigh of relief...
...week ended, Reagan Administration policymakers breathed a great sigh of relief that their plans and strategies, so painstakingly worked out over the past two years, had gone so well. Both Republicans and Democrats praised the handling of the Philippine crisis. Officials counted themselves incredibly lucky. Noting that events had passed without appreciable bloodshed, a senior U.S. official in Washington ruefully remarked that the Lord surely looks after "fools, children, the Philippines and the U.S.A...