Word: sighingly
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...Hollywood, institutions do not crumble; they deflate. On New Year's Eve, a loud whistling sigh will develop at Prince Michael Romanoff's fabled restaurant as it sags into extinction. After 23 years in business, the instant prince this week held a command cocktail party in order to tell selected courtiers that he is through...
...Hockey is gang warfare, basketball is for gamblers, and Australia is too far to travel to see a decent tennis match. Even baseball, the sportswriters' "national pastime," can be a slow-motion bore: finger resin bag, touch cap, look for sign, shake head, shake again, check first, big sigh, wind up, finally pitch. Crack! Foul ball-and the fans could be halfway to Chicago by jet. Even a good thing palls when the games go on day after day for six months. Football's pros are shrewder: they perform just once a week, 14 times a season...
...votes) for the blandest sort of condemnation of Castro's dictatorship. But this time, faced by the tangible menace of Russian missiles, the U.S. decided to act in its own self-defense, and then to ask for hemispheric approval. Latin America's response was a general sigh of relief and a willingness to follow U.S. leadership...
...hitting was atrocious. The Giants left a total of 30 runners stranded high and dry on the bases. The Dodgers, shut out in their last two regular-season games, kept right on holding their breaths and bats for 14 agonizing playoff innings-and then, with a mighty sigh, blew across seven runs in a single frame...
...Unfortunately," he went on, "the Soviet Union does not yet have players who can challenge our own..." a sigh of relief interrupted him but he raised his voice urgently: "We cannot afford, however, to wait until they do. For when that day arrives they'll have hundreds of prospects, we'll have none, and it'll be too late...