Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...almost hear the sigh of relief from moderate politicians across Britain and Ireland. The Northern Ireland peace accord -- that Mitchell-Blair-Ahern bid to capture the middle ground -- has succeeded, according to the first poll taken in the wake of its completion. The Irish Times/Guardian survey shows 73 percent support for the deal north of the border, and 61 percent backing in the Republic. Barring any major upsets, the May referendums should show similar numbers...
Salman Rushdie, born in Bombay, India, is the author of The Moor's Last Sigh...
...maybe the Administration was working the way my parents do, constantly trying to make us appreciate what we have by threatening that it might be gone soon. That tactic has definitely worked--just watch those recently Quadded students leaving Annenberg with a mournful sigh, only to pass by the shuttle schedule which hangs tauntingly outside the Science Center...
...crowd, which had been growing throughout the incident, let out a collective sigh of relief. Then a funny thing happened. Everyone started smiling. Have you noticed how few people smile as they walk through the Yard? Maybe it's the midterms or the hundreds of pages of overdue reading on their minds, but whatever the case, I just don't see a lot of smiling faces. Another Harvard taboo was violated that day--people who didn't even know each other started talking. Weird, eh? (Sorry, Canadians...
Back at Palm, officials heaved a sigh of relief. When the first WinCE devices came out, Dubinsky recalls, "we said, 'Uh-oh, it's all over for us now.'" But consumers weren't as interested in what came to be known as "tweeners"--computers that are neither full-featured laptops nor true handheld pocket devices. "They were sort of in never-never land," she says. By the end of 1997, Palm had grabbed two-thirds of the market for handheld devices, and those running on WinCE 1.0 were far behind...