Word: sighingly
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...public heaved an enormous sigh of relief at the relative smoothness of the operation, many found the manner and the content of the deal that had forestalled an invasion distasteful. To get out of a jam, the current President had lent his authority to a failed former President. The terms of Jimmy Carter's arrangement to remove Haiti's brutal junta were so much less than Clinton had promised only days before. The agreement did not require the dictators to leave Haiti after their retirement, and they did not even sign it. It implied they and their followers were entitled...
...this can only come from a guy who for so long seemed to believe his own commercials (and by the way, image is NOT everything). Sampras scares people with his youthful composure, I guess, and Agassi's girl-friends (Barbra Streisand, Brooke Shields) seem to get all the publicity. (Sigh...
Lawyers and clerks who work in the building are so overwhelmed, so shell-shocked by the almost daily barrage of public and media that they no longer answer reporters' questions about the inconvenience. Instead, they look weary, shrug their shoulders, and sigh...
...start contracepting and curbing births far more vigorously than ever before. But the spirit is entirely different, depending on how we interpret our numerical strength: if the current population is an achievement rather than a "bomb," then we should be patting ourselves on the back and heaving a deep sigh of relief. Population control should be seen as a reward for a job well done rather than as a new form of discipline and self-denial...
...play is set with Ben's commentary about what he is reading in the newspaper. During the first few minutes of the play, we see Gus trying to tie his shoe while Ben fervently peruses the paper. Every so often Ben will throw the paper down in disgust, sigh, moan or scream and pick it up and continue reading. After the third or fourth angry outburst like this, Gus asks Ben what he's reading about. He goes on to tell the story of an 87-year-old man run over by a bus. Then he tells how two children...