Word: sighingly
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...sigh is just a sigh...
...uncovered no evidence of criminal wrongdoing during its investigation of how Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign obtained briefing papers from the Carter White House. Accordingly, Attorney General William French Smith decided against appointing a special prosecutor. Press interest began to wane, and the Administration breathed a collective sigh of relief that the potentially combustible case seemed closed. But last week it was revived when U.S. District Judge Harold Greene ordered the appointment of a special prosecutor. In a toughly worded 31-page ruling that drew some parallels to Watergate, Greene called Smith's handling of the probe "arbitrary...
...step, a trek into the Himalayas, led by emissaries from a far-off holy man. At last she reaches him, asks for his guidance, and hears his musical reply: "Life is just a bowl of cherries. " The audience laughs and applauds, and from some corners there is a faint sigh of what sounds like relief that there has been no weighty message, no preaching...
...Bill Hopkins gives a melancholy sigh when he reads about the security barriers around the White House and about the huge budget ($23 million) and staff (322) that serve the President. As a clerk for the Bureau of Naturalization in Herbert Hoover's Administration, he used to amble out of his office on G Street for lunch as just another pedestrian with no security pass other than his amiable attitude. He would walk all the way through the old State, War and Navy Building (now the Executive Office Building), climb the steps beside the West Wing of the White...
...section leader in class on the day before. Thanksgiving when I myself was a visitor. He passed out a Xerox copy of a hand-scratched assignment sheet. It had only two topics on it, and the section leader asked that everyone choose the second one. There was a general sigh among the students as they listened in this pathetic effort to make the second paper respectable. When asked in front of the hemmed and unconcerned professor when the paper was due, the graduate student actually could not say. Coordination, organization?--not to worry about such basic matters. When...