Word: sighingly
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...Louis J. Marion, paintings by Picasso, Signac, Pissarro, Lautrec were knocked down at the top prices Parke-Bernet had noted in their confidential books. But when a handsome view of the Tuileries by Edouard Vuillard, appraised at $25,000, was placed on the stand, there was a long-drawn sigh of delight, followed by a bedlam of bids as 18 green-uniformed bid callers and four assistant auctioneers tried to keep up with the rush that shot the price in 2 min. 15 sec. from a $15,000 opener to a Vuillard world record of $70,000. To the consternation...
...With a sigh of relief, the U.S. aircraft industry learned last week that the Defense Department would pay its bills after all. To 28 major airframe and missile contractors, Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy sent a telegram rescinding the harsh 25% reduction in progress payment on contracts that recently threw manufacturers into a tail spin (TIME, Oct. 28). In its place, the Defense Department announced a new, less rigid series of payment "targets," under which the planemakers would get at least 80%, and possibly 90%, of their costs for work in progress...
...occupied Tibet. For the sake of expedience and compromise, Phizo was momentarily swept aside. "He just does not come into the picture," insisted the Naga Delegation Chief Incongloba Ao. Privately, Ao admitted that most Nagas still favor Phizo's demand for complete independence. "But," he added with a sigh, "we must be practical...
After the story leaked out, reporters besieged the high-flying professor, and the Brazilian air force nervously put a fighter cover over the rendezvous beach. With a sigh, Guimaraes last week took to television to get the matter straight once and for all. But he refused to elaborate on his telepathic talk with the saucermen. "It is wiser not to divulge it. The authorities know all the details." Guimaraes' TV lecture left many viewers convinced that he had been in his cups rather than in a saucer. But as the hoots grew louder, friends and colleagues joined ranks around...
...famed "wrong-door" raid on Marilyn Monroe. Newspaper and magazine morgues also have been raided by scandalmag agents. To backstop his bedroom exclusives. Harrison retained a squad of private eyes with such electronic sleuths as a fast, small, noiseless camera, wrist-attached microphones that can pick up a sigh at 60 paces...