Word: sighings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...involves standards of comparison. It is easy to sigh for the days of Senators with tongues of silver and minds of steel, to forget that some of today's Senators rank high in character and vision, that few of the present Senators are as bad as some specimens of recent history-the Bilbos, Huey Longs, "Pappy" O'Daniels and "Cotton Ed" Smiths. Some are merely time servers and seat warmers who are as incapable of harm as of greatness. There are others whose antics are sometimes cheap and whose motivations are sometimes sordid. But their faults...
...Sigh of Relief. Other Italians understood him better. After the fall of Mussolini, they called Croce back into public life once more in Marshal Badoglio's cabinet. But his appearance was a brief one. With a sigh of relief he left public office for good, and went back home to a library that reached ladder-high ("How can a man live without books?"), and to a special Italian Institute of Historical Studies which he had long wanted to found...
...breathes a sigh of relief when the dangerous stuff goes off the grounds. The work has become routine; last year the plant made 4,715 shipments, an increase of 56% over 1947. Each shipment, besides accomplishing important scientific tasks,.trained more people to deal with the perils of the developing Atomic...
...tugs pulled, winches ground, a flood tide whipped by a chill north wind nudged at her sides. Last week, on the fifth try, the mighty U.S.S. Missouri heaved a metallic sigh and slipped off the Chesapeake Bay shoal where she had sat, unbudging, on her big broad bottom, for 15 days. The band played Anchor's Aweigh and Nobody Knows de Trouble I See. In drydock, the damage proved slight. This week, haggard Captain William D. Brown, whose troubles were just beginning, would have to explain to a court of inquiry how, on his first trip as her commanding...
...mostly of putty-colored seashores awash with pea-soup seas and peopled by puppet-like fishermen. Though the colors were dreary, they did make a wet, mysterious atmosphere, and Leonid's brush had time & again captured the textures of dry dunes and soaking sand flats, the hiss and sigh of retreating waves. Moreover, his drawing was as graceful as the brushwork of a Chinese calligrapher. Each composition was a looping arabesque in which men and boats were neatly knotted, carrying the gaze back and back to far-distant horizons...