Word: sighs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...defensive end, Tomassoni must be breathing a sigh of relief that tonight's opponent is barely a hockey team. The young Crimson defense continues to be banged up, with freshman Derek Maguire the most recent victim...
Breathing a sigh of relief, the Crimson went into the first 10-minute overtime...
...Saudi Arabia, Bush cleared his Kennebunkport table and for 2 1/2 hours pondered whether a recession could be prevented, what to do if it occurred with the Iraqi crisis still unresolved. There was no certainty unless it was Bush's undimmed faith in America. "Well," he said with a sigh, "I just think the country is basically strong, the people can handle...
...knock against Kurt Vonnegut, back a couple of decades ago when he was a cult author, was that he pandered too glibly to the natural cynicism of the disaffected young. He was too quick, it was said, to detect the smell of society's insulation burning -- and to sigh "So it goes" -- when there was nothing more in the air than, say, a harmless whiff from a distant war or the neighborhood toxic-waste dump. No more; his news in Hocus Pocus is that our charred insulation no longer smolders. It has burned itself out, and civilization's great, tired...
...hands move toward her writhing body. The camera heightens the suggestion of what is to come without allowing the scene to become graphic; there is no nudity, but there is plenty of screaming and leering. When the deed is done, the audience lets out a barely audible sigh of relief. Or is it pleasure? For Ashok Rawat, 28, a building contractor, it is the latter. Says he: "Rape is enjoyable because in men's fantasies force is the only way to get women who are otherwise out of reach...