Word: sighingly
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...Harvard athletic history. End-zone Crone, a man fading, pumping, scrambling with an effortless inviolability, zeroing in like a computerized homing pigeon, tightening and tightening the frantic gyre until he could settle to his knees on that corner of the Endzone,clutching a football with a pregnant, held sigh, heaving that sigh, and mumbling, "Here, at least, is a spot that will be forever Crone." Maintaining his hold on that inconsequential little square of Harvard soil, clutching it tenaciously in the continuum of his mind as though it, too, will never die and fade into the memories...
...began pursuing the elderly in all of their individuality five years ago, when her marriage was in ruins and she sought "someplace where a deep, ragged sigh would not sound unusual." She found it in a rundown hotel peopled by pensioners in an unnamed American city. She was both fascinated and appalled by the unfeeling, single-minded pursuit of sheer survival shown by Al and Harry, two panhandlers in their 70s with whom she trudged the streets. They spent their days, she writes with compassion, "scurrying around the city, like chiggers under the skin of civilization...
...adulterous spouse, Fabray, talks incessantly, but all the audience ever knows about her is that she left her husband. Her lines are most evocative of an elongated sigh of unspecified meaning...
...partner, variety of techniques practiced, or years of sexual experience. He also concluded that a woman's likelihood to climax could not be measured by any externally perceived characteristics such as passivity, femininity, sociablity, uninhibitedness, or degree of anxiety. After strong doses of psychoanalytic theory, we can utter a sigh of relief as Fisher writes that a woman's ability to be sexually responsive is "only one aspect of her life and should not be used to classify her in any general sense as a psychologically adequate or inadequate person...
...While Middle America breathes a sigh of relief and looks with a certain satisfaction on Richard Nixon's peace agreement, let's remember who the real heroes of this peace are: the men and women who had the courage to get out in the streets and tell our leaders they were wrong before "peace" was chic and when "love it or leave it" was still strong...