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Word: sighings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occupied Tibet. For the sake of expedience and compromise, Phizo was momentarily swept aside. "He just does not come into the picture," insisted the Naga Delegation Chief Incongloba Ao. Privately, Ao admitted that most Nagas still favor Phizo's demand for complete independence. "But," he added with a sigh, "we must be practical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Private Little War | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

After the story leaked out, reporters besieged the high-flying professor, and the Brazilian air force nervously put a fighter cover over the rendezvous beach. With a sigh, Guimaraes last week took to television to get the matter straight once and for all. But he refused to elaborate on his telepathic talk with the saucermen. "It is wiser not to divulge it. The authorities know all the details." Guimaraes' TV lecture left many viewers convinced that he had been in his cups rather than in a saucer. But as the hoots grew louder, friends and colleagues joined ranks around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Cups or Saucers? | 9/9/1957 | See Source »

...famed "wrong-door" raid on Marilyn Monroe. Newspaper and magazine morgues also have been raided by scandalmag agents. To backstop his bedroom exclusives. Harrison retained a squad of private eyes with such electronic sleuths as a fast, small, noiseless camera, wrist-attached microphones that can pick up a sigh at 60 paces...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Putting the Papers to Bed | 8/26/1957 | See Source »

...attract such a man?" asked the mothers of Roghudi gloomily. "If he ever chooses, it will be one from outside, one who knows the ways of the world and can read newspapers, as he does." Sadly aware of their own drawbacks, the rustic daughters of Roghudi could only sigh, and some among them hope that a day would come when handsome, dark-eyed Mayor Pietro Nucera might forget himself and take them by violence. In the harsh code of justice on the slopes of Aspromonte, the Harsh Mountains in the toe of Italy's boot, the act of rape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Bashful Guappo | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

...Indians, having seen this sort of pride-punctured squabbling before, turned with a sigh toward the quietude of their own homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HISTORICAL NOTES: Pilgrims' Progress | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

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