Word: sighings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seven-day absence, three large leather pouches, chained and padlocked, had arrived in Denver. Dozens of letters, written and typed up in Washington, awaited his approval and signature. The two-foot pile of "urgent" papers before him was higher than the length of the rainbow trout. With an audible sigh, Dwight Eisenhower settled down to work...
...heart-shaped face was teaching U.S. moviegoers last week a lesson they already knew and loved -i.e., that the life of a princess is not a happy one. Balcony bobby-soxers for years have shed pleasant tears at the plight of trapped royalty, and breathed a happy sigh of relief when at last the royal one escapes into a commoner's arms (Olivia de Havilland and a handsome pilot in 1943's Princess O'Rourke; Vera-Ellen and a tap-dancing reporter in 1953's Call Me Madam). As the princess in Paramount...
...York critics heartily agreed. Paramount Pictures and William Wyler, who had decided to keep their $2,200,000 production waiting for Audrey on the hunch that her play would not run a month, were obliged to twiddle their thumbs for half a year while audiences packed the Fulton to sigh and smile at the enchantingly gawky Gigi...
...driving rain, Magsaysay was whisked through bamboo forests into Pampanga province, the last region of the islands where the Huks are still strong. A limousine with six bodyguards led the way; a jeepload of Manila police guarded the rear. Peasants, alerted that Magsaysay (pronounced wag-sigh-sigh) was coming, waved and grinned from beneath their huge dripping salakots (hats). As the convoy sloshed into Manalin, a public address system blared the catchy Magsaysay Mambo: "Mambo, Mambo, Magsaysay,/ Our democracy will die,/ If there is no Magsaysay...
...sweetness ..." House Minority Leader Sam Rayburn (71): "Baldheaded, short and a little pudgy, but he's a blue-ribbon darling in anybody's date book . . . Footloose and fancy-free." Georgia Senator Dick Russell (55): "At the very mention of his name, Washington widows heave and sigh . . . The darling of the Southland, has just about everything. He's gallant, handsome, debonair, wise and charming." Rhode Island Senator Theodore Green: "If it's money you're after . . . he's Mr. Moneybags himself. But don't expect this 85-year-old tennis player to lavish...