Word: sighingly
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...noticed in the window of one of our most stylish Cambridge haberdashers, a four-button jacket. Four buttons! All the other usual equipment, naturally--tweed, British vents, spare shoulders, pocket flaps--but four buttons! After a while, the jacket disappeared from the window, and we breathed a sigh of relief, still clinging to our recently threatened three-buttoned job. But when, scarcely a week ago, we noticed the self-same jacket draped--or rather, compressed--around the shoulders of a friend of ours, our anxiety was trebly renewed...
...times, Vienna-born Preminger would turn to his cameraman with a sigh: "You must be firm with Germans. They are raised differently from us and react better if one is absolutely rigorous. Only patience will get us what we want." When the German cast moved off the set, Preminger called for his English-speaking actors-David Niven, William Holden, Maggie McNamara and Dawn Addams-and shot the same scene with less difficulty-and less patience-in English...
...wrote a letter to "Dear Mr. Mao" urging the Red leader to disband the Red army if and when the Communists joined the government. Now, five years later, the mainland Reds spewed out a poisonous torrent of calumny against him, and Chinese neutralists in Hong Kong and Singapore, who sigh for a nonexistent third force, sulked because Hu had ignored them...
...dance for West African students and made a little speech, the British Labor Party's great grey grumbler was introduced as "The One & Only Aneurin Bevan." Said Bevan in reply: "When I heard your chairman refer to me as "the one & only Aneurin Bevan, I heaved a sigh of relief-for if there were more of me, I would be declared an illegal association...
...overwhelming was the fact that his answers would be believed. The word of no other man would be taken so unquestioningly, so much on faith. His was a position almost unique in U.S. history ... In Europe, the reaction [to his report] was dramatic. Britain . . . breathed an almost audible sigh of relief. Italians remembered their past glories. The non-Communists of France were lifted up. The whole of Western Europe, living under the shadow of the great peril, was more heartened than at any time in four years of daily threats, unending scares . . ." After this statement appeared, TIME heard no dissent...