Word: sighingly
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...Guevara's Bristol Britannia finally landed back in Havana last week, the home folks cheered, and the rest of the hemisphere permitted itself a mighty sigh. Not only had Che done his best to steal the spotlight at the Alliance for Progress conference, but he managed to sow sweet confusion at every step along the road home, leaving behind one government toppled and another muttering dark thoughts. He even found a way to dangle a coexistence cigar before the U.S. White House and depart having given that implacable foe something to think about...
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...Currently losing $2,500,000 a year on the maintenance of Penn Station, the Pennsy expects its share of the revenues from the new Garden to cut its operating loss on the station to $1,000,000 annually. Those who mourn Manhattan's disappearing architectural landmarks will not sigh long over the dilapidated Garden on Eighth Avenue, but will regret the leveling of the greyed, Grecian granite Penn Station, whose vaulted open arcade was modeled on the ancient Roman Baths of Caracalla...
...Vienna summit conference had produced "no concrete result," and pronounced Kennedy's two encounters with Soviet Premier Khrushchev a negative success: "They were not a failure, but considering how disastrous failure could have been, that's good news enough." Said the Los Angeles Times with a grateful sigh: "If the cheers from our side are prompted more by relief than the evidence of accomplishment, there is good reason for them. The President of the United States has met with the boss of world Communism and comes away with the family heirlooms still in his possession...
...glacial Charles de Gaulle promptly melted. It was not the first time Jackie had worked her magic on the French President; last year, during his trip to Washington. De Gaulle observed with a sigh: "If there were anything I could take back to France with me, it would be Mrs. Kennedy...