Word: sighings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such a development of a child is of course newsworthy; but when we are told about the destruction of 1 million lives we turn the page and sigh, "They are at it again." No outrage, no days of prayer in churches, no outcries from protesters -nothing...
...certify that any military or economic assistance to that country would contribute to peace in Cyprus. He would also have to report to Congress every 60 days on progress toward a settlement. When the Senate approved the measure 57 to 42, the State Department, with an almost audible sigh of relief, praised the legislators for "statesmanlike action...
...Department of Labor recently ordered a team of investigators to begin auditing the entire South Florida program. But while its problems are serious, the program is surely not the only one of CETA'S 2,800 local projects afflicted by mismanagement. Says a Labor Department official with a sigh: "It would take an army, everybody in the department, to check on each of them...
...where it was five years ago. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1973 that women had the right to decide for themselves whether or not they wished to have a child, and people like Jean Weinburg, executive director of Massachusetts Organization for Repeal of Abortion Laws (MORAL) breathed a sigh of relief. Since the Supreme Court made that ruling, abortion has been a private decision--not a bid idea, since there are a number of moral considerations on the issue and no general consensus. Everyone is entitled to abortions; Medicaid funds have been used to pay for poor women...
...picture of Beckett, suffering terribly from huge corns and terrible calluses, walking only with great pain. He must have pulled off his shoes in much the same way as his character, Estragon, pulls off his horrible misshapen boots in the first act of Waiting for Godot with a sigh of infinite relief...