Word: sighingly
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...effort. Mondale's chief opposition came from Cranston and South Carolina Senator Ernest Hollings, who were desperate for a victory that might win some press attention. Results: Mondale 51%, Cranston 29%, Hollings 11%, Glenn 6%. So Mondale won - what? Little more than a chance to crow and privately sigh with relief...
...with which he described it. It is all right to live that way, but one should have the grace to conceal it, or at least to sound a little guilty about it; Buckley luxuriates in his amenities a bit too much, and one hears in his prose the happy sigh of a man sinking into a hot bath. So his enemies try to dismiss him as Marie Antoinette in a pimpmobile. They portray him as, among other things, a terrible, terminal snob...
...harvest in the Midwest. In Dewitt County, Ill., Lester Thorpe went out into his fields of brown stalks and plowed under his 1,100 acres of corn last week. "There's not enough here for seed or to cover the cost of harvesting," he said with a sigh. "Best just to dig it up and forget...
...opponents' almost ridiculous youth confirms it. So many of them are the pigtailed picture of Patty McCormack in The Bad Seed swearing to her mother that she had not set fire to the handyman. "These kids were two years old," King says with a sigh, "when I was No. 1." They delight her even so, and she smiles as she observes, "When you're young, you think you're the center of the universe. When you're older, you realize you're just a little speck." Immediately following her worst defeat in 22 years...
...city seemed to drop its broad shoulders in a sigh of relief as the racial tensions of the past seven weeks began to subside. A black newspaper, the Chicago Defender, had run a front-page warning the day before the vote that police were planning to make mass arrests of Washington supporters on the day of the election. But the balloting was remarkably free of chicanery, proceeding without significant fraud or intimidation. "Be cool, be cool, don't blow it," black radio stations urged their listeners as the results came...