Word: sighings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This is a historic turning point," Begin had said during the intense 17-hour debate that preceded the vote. Indeed, a collective sigh of relief went up in Cairo and Washington when results of the balloting were known. Of course, obstacles remain, and key problems are unsolved, but the Jerusalem decision cleared the way for the start of Egyptian-Israeli negotiations that may well lead to a peace treaty between these neighboring enemies by Christmas...
...rebels, squabbling over territory could easily flare into fighting. Efforts by Nyerere and other front-line leaders to heal the breach have been to no avail. "We have been working to get them to build a single army, but we have failed,'' admitted Nyerere with a sigh. "What I fear is the possibility that once Smith is out and there is no single army and single authority, then really we can be in trouble. The nationalists have not been very helpful-to themselves, to the future of Zimbabwe -by encouraging a civil...
...Wanda: (sigh) I know, dear...
...Last week Koch's commandos and the CDC detectives agreed that the outbreak had apparently passed its peak. The workers, glad to have the area scrubbed down and cleansed as never before, were jubilant as air conditioning was turned on again-an event that generated a block-long sigh of relief in Macy's huge department store, which borders the district. At week's end rack carts carrying fall fashions jockeyed through traffic and pedestrians as usual. As mid-September buyers swarmed in, the garment district's business was back to normal...
...that would be needed to finance new prisons and expanded courts. It would be self-defeating to turn into a society of police and wardens in order to restore confidence in the law's consequences. But confusion of judicial purpose, with lapses into wistful incompetence and the sociological sigh, is just as destructive to public morale. Within civilized limits, speed and certainty of punishment represent an approachable ideal. - Lance Morrow