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Word: sighings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their choice, the cops made a lengthy check on the pickets to determine whether their identity cards were in order. It took them until 5 a.m., when by happy coincidence, the Argentina had just locked up tight, to decide that everybody's cards were in order. With a sigh of relief, the cops sent the priests and their followers home, secure in the knowledge that their country had a new Miss Greece: 19-year-old Fedora Xyrou...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: The Climax of Sin | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...appeared in Milwaukee newspapers. The College of Wooster, with a collective red face, had just discharged one Robert Peters, a fraudulent "professor" with bogus references and no degrees. No one at Lawrence knows why Peters changed his mind about the College, but the incident is always related with a sigh of relief...

Author: By Arthur J. Langguth, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Nathan M. Pusey: Culture Moves East | 6/11/1953 | See Source »

...appeared in Milwaukee newspapers. The College of Wooster, with a collective red face, had just discharged one Robert Peters, a fraudulent "professor" with bogus references and no degrees. No one at Lawrence knows why Peters changed his mind about the College, but the incident is always related with a sigh of relief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Nathan M. Pusey: Culture Moves East | 6/10/1953 | See Source »

...eighth inning, as the tension rose, the Browns' Rookie Shortstop Bill Hunter made a diving stop of a hot grounder and threw out the base runner by a step. Bobo, who had already driven in three runs, enough to win his own game, heaved a huge sigh. In the ninth, the pressure finally began to unsettle Bobo just a little. He walked the first man on four straight pitches, issued three more balls to the next batter. Manager Marion was so jittery that he could not bring himself to go to tie mound to try and settle Bobo down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rookie's Debut | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

...agnostic about religion as about love. The human brain, he said, was not constructed to exercise itself in the realms of the infinite. This conviction shut out poetry as well as God, and Bennett could only sigh: "I should not object to having a religious creed. I should rather like to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Words by the Day | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

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