Word: sighingly
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...rendered in apocalyptic sound. Viennese-born Composer Ernest Gold, a veteran of two decades of film scoring (On the Beach and The Defiant Ones), knows better than most of his colleagues how to write a mystery in a web of strings and nostalgia in a flute's falling sigh. The film's haunting theme hints of a talent for better things...
With an almost audible sigh of relief, the Court ignored the constitutional issues, confined itself to the Justice Department's argument, and last week decided by a vote of 7 to 2 that the terminal restaurant, even though privately owned, was an integral part of the busline's services. "Interstate passengers have to eat," observed the Supreme Court, and they have a right to expect service "without discrimination prohibited by the Interstate Commerce...
...Libby resigned his commissionership with a near audible sigh of relief and became a professor of chemistry at the University of California at Los Angeles. He lives close to the campus with his wife and 15-year-old twin daughters, and is busy again on peaceful research...
...stretched. Would the cause of death be certain? "No," replied the scientist. Then Rankin moved in on Witness Clift, the government biologist who had rashly admitted that he was an "expert on stocking strangulation cases." "Did you ever ask if that stocking had been stretched?" he thundered. With a sigh. Dr. Clift replied that he had not. Had the stocking really looked like a rope, as Clift had testified? Clift paused, then admitted: "It was not twisted as a rope is twisted, but it reminded me of rope." Snapped Rankin: "And you call yourself an expert?" With that, Clift fainted...
...Some changed their names, but although "it was only a matter of two rubles and the proper enlightenment," Lasik Roitschwantz passed up the opportunity of becoming Spartacus Rosaluxemburgsky. Adopting two saints' names in the hagiography of Marxism* was his last chance to stay out of trouble. Instead, he sighs the wrong sort of sigh ("a purely pathological phenomenon") before a poster mourning the death of a party bigwig; he is denounced for antiSemitism, mysticism and "morbid eroticism"-being in love. Furthermore, he cannot get the Chinese question fixed in his mind. He is jailed but eventually wangles...