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Word: sighings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said U.N.B.'s President Albert W. Trueman with an exhausted sigh: "He's a human hurricane, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Hurricane Time | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

...sigh is not enough: a new spirit has to permeate the whole. The representatives of Christianity can no doubt assist in preparing the way for this inner renewal. This, however, will not depend on what they can claim, but on what they can contribute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unpleasant Christian | 5/21/1951 | See Source »

...free world, there was also jubilation-and foreboding. A vast sigh of relief rose from Europe and Britain, where MacArthur had long been the symbol of an American urge to get entangled in Asia, plunge into World War III. London's House of Commons, apparently in full agreement with the British government's policy of appeasement of the Chinese Reds, cheered when Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison broke the news. Cried the News Chronicle: "Mr. Truman has taken the bull by the horns and pushed him out of the china shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Jubilation --& Foreboding | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

...great week for Ramon Magsaysay (rhymes with fog-sigh-sigh), Defense Secretary of the Philippines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Hope Against the Huks | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

...alley. Eight torpedoes hit six of them, including two ammunition ships, and turned the harbor into "a wholesale fireworks display with the aurora borealis and a couple of sunsets to boot." An hour later, Skipper Fluckey noted in his log: "Crossed the 20 fathom curve with a sigh ... However, life begins at 40 fathoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Take Her Down | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

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