Word: sighings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...protesting against Gaddafi," says Girolamo Sechi, a city councilman. "Instead, I say, 'Welcome,' and the more Libyans the better. They're going to bring 2,000 tourist beds, whereas now we have only 1,000." Adds Giuseppe Cornado, the island's postmaster, with a long sigh: "Gaddafi or NATO. I don't care who it is, just so they bring money to raise us to the level of the rest of Italy...
...pact really is signed and ratified, the nation can only heave a sigh of relief. Peace seems to have been won essentially by the coal operators caving in to the union's insistence on wage and benefit increases roughly equal to the 39% over three years that 1.4 million steelworkers won last April, plus a long list of costly noneconomic demands. Even so, those demands are better met without a strike than after a walkout that could have crippled the economy...
...coeds." It wasn't easy. I stared at one strikingly pretty woman for a full five minutes, waiting for her completely blank expression to change. It didn't. Of course, she may have had a good reason for her glazed look. "I'm so bored," I overheard one girl sigh. "My date isn't the most interesting person...
Among the Democratic politicians across the U.S., Senator Edward Kennedy's "firm, final and unconditional" decision not to seek the presidency in 1976 brought forth a collective sigh of relief last week. The reasons were as varied as the conflicting emotions that the Kennedy name inspires...
Solberg could be described as a post-revisionist. He well recalls the sigh of relief when American soldiers came home in 1945. The U.S. had, he contends, two deep-seated fears: another Great Depression and another sneak attack like Pearl Harbor. Then came the shocking news that "Uncle Joe" Stalin's Russia was a lot more like Adolf Hitler's Germany than it ought to have been. Sound and statesmanlike steps were taken, among them the Marshall Plan. So were some domestically dangerous ripostes to Russian provocations, like the 1948 passage of a peacetime draft. Thereafter, fear...