Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation's collective sigh of relief could have launched a thousand shuttles. President Reagan opened an awards ceremony in the White House Rose Garden with the dramatic announcement, "America is back in space." Admitted < Reagan: "I think I had my fingers crossed like everybody else." In St. Charles, Mo., just after completing a campaign speech, George Bush got word about Discovery and hurriedly retook the stage. "I thought you might be interested," he told the crowd. "The shuttle is launched successfully, and America is back in space. We're back! America is back!" The crowd roared its approval. Declared Michael...
...more than just a sublime athlete. Since their marriage in 1986, she has overwhelmed the field with the only 7,000-point performances on record -- four of them. He says, "At times I feel she's possessed by athletics. She can go on and on." With a sigh she agrees, "I don't know what it is about that extra second or inch. I expect so much out of myself." She always aches but never minds. "Ask any athlete: we all hurt at all times. I'm asking my body to go through seven different tasks...
Earl Warren's dated sigh about men's failures being on the front page and their successes on the sports page changed to a laugh last week when, in the same edition, several football agents, two boxers and a hockey player extended the fields of play to a grand jury room, an all-night boutique in Harlem and a prison cell...
...them. Once, in an extraordinary fit of conscience -- just for an instant -- the basketball star Elvin Hayes actually refused his paycheck out of a sense that he hadn't earned it. After nearly decapitating Jack Nicklaus during a pro-am tournament, a wretched amateur golfer wondered with a sigh if Nicklaus ever shanked one. Softly, almost apologetically, the game's ultimate champion replied, "Three times, when...
...while the party's mainstream is letting out an almost audible sigh of relief over Jackson's post-defeat behavior, for his part, Jackson seems to be making the least of his loss...