Word: sighingly
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There is something strange, say some visitors to Israel, when, every hour on the hour, a whole country stops to listen to the news. There is something wrong, they remark, when the sound of an airplane makes a whole nation look upward and sigh with relief when the plane is recognized as a friend...
ONLY a few months ago, much of the world was concerned about the Viet Nam War, with perhaps an occasional sigh over the related but gentler conflict in neighboring Laos. Now, with unexpected suddenness, the conflict in Southeast Asia has come to be known by a far more encompassing term: the War in Indochina. It is an uneasy escalation, since it poses new problems for everyone involved, specifically including the Communists as well as the U.S. and its allies (see THE NATION). If the conflict is broader and more dangerous, though, it is still being fought in three theaters...
...dogs lay curled together on the bathmat. Alfred snorted and thumped his tail in his sleep which caused Girl to sigh and wake...
...south, chanting as they came, to ask the southern chiefs if relief from famine could be expected. And Io, hardly had the bikes of the emissaries been spotted on the horizon by the eagle-eyed and sleepless watchers, when the hay in the fields began to move and sigh and the Great Hot Wind from the Desert began to blow. Wind which in September would have been a sublime blessing, which would have caused the flowers to produce resin to coat their sacred leaves, the same hot wind in August brought about the calamity which led to the Great Migration...
...actor plays Hero, and the other six play the 206 people who had an influence on his life. He is the Great American Hero and even goes into a contest to compete for the title of 'World's Greatest Man.' But it's only a play, like a sigh or a question. But if you could join all my plays together in a sort of beserk marathon you would get more of a sense of the man who's writing the play. The World's Greatest Play joins a play like Morning beautifully because they are both about leadership...