Word: sighings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...James, trouble began after he was sent off to strait-laced and demanding Milton Academy, outside Boston. Says he: "There were things going on in my head other than what the Milton people thought was right and proper." Milton's dean, John Torney, recalls James with a sigh. "We just weren't ready for him," Torney explains. "James was more sensitive and less goal oriented than most students of his day. I'm sure James knew about drugs long before anyone else here...
...going to end. Everyone had agreed to stop arguing. There was almost a visible sigh of relief. The lady in makeup began an elaborate speech of thanks to Dr. Teller. She patted his arm and smiled at him dewily through false eyelashes. "There , that wasn't so bad, was it?" Old-World courtesies sputtered back in reply. She gave him a loud kiss on the check. He winced...
...propaganda and a belief that the union of male and female, explicitly demonstrated, is a major balletic theme. For music he mixes Wagner with Indian ragas, rock with military marches, and makes use of whistles, thumps and even "the sound of a creaking door and a woman's sigh...
...himself. In this first collection of poems, the hawks finally lie down with the doves to make room for the aardvark and the heron. But in the process the ex-candidate's lines show off backward glances, once and future visions, and a loner's sigh of relief...
Clearly, no mandate was issued at the polls-only a muted sigh, a harried plea for deliverance from angry shouts and hollow promises. The post-election confusion and lingering bitterness can only impede efforts toward the real goal: effective government of and for the American people. In an election where one is hard-pressed to find a loser, perhaps we have overlooked the electorate...