Word: sighingly
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...himself that "few men get this special sense of satisfaction in their lives, the chance to do what they have been thinking and talking about for so long." Time and time again, in making decisions on budget and tax cuts, in giving instructions to his troops, Reagan would sigh, "I've been wanting to do that for a long time." His energy seemed to kindle with each thrust...
...engines are up and running!" Cheers rose from the ranks of scientists and technicians packed into the Cape Canaveral control center when the word came. Millions of Americans watching on morning television breathed a sigh of relief. Those red and orange flames flaring out from beneath the Columbia space shuttle, the immense cloud of steam created by burning liquid oxygen and hydrogen that drifted out to sea were emblems of success. The long delayed final test firing of Columbia's three main engines had at last gone off without a hitch. Columbia's moment of triumph made...
...quickly. By the early decades of this century, serious story writers had pretty much replaced sequence with pattern, events with perceptions. The virtual disappearance of plot from short fiction produced, to be sure, plenty of wispy work, attenuated aperçus evoking the memory of an echo of a sigh. But the masters of the new form understood and met its twin demands: a stringent economy of language fused to a profligacy of inference...
...even though Harvard succumbed, 5-2, for the first time since 1975 Princeton emitted a sigh of relief instead of a matter-of-fact acceptance following the head-to-head battle...
Finally, Robie gained the edge at 14-12 in the fifth game. Fish fought back to 14-13 and the gallery emitted a collective sigh--he had already squandered a match point. But then Robie clinched the game, the match, the national crown championship, exacting a sweet measure of revenge. Hemenway, as always, still smelled of sweat, but on this afternoon champagne (squash players are ever eminent) flowed freely...