Word: sighingly
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...primary results, recorded before his decision not to run, are any indication, President Truman's popularity has dwindled considerably. Many will probably sigh with relief when he returns to Missouri and hope that the nation gets a man who acts the part of a national leader. But if Truman's overall achievements, and in particular his foreign policy, are weighed against his personal shortcomings, it will be clear that for the last seven years the country has had an able President...
...happy and your eyes are always dry, Don't you know that it's the style to sob and sigh, Singers do it, crowds do it, even little white clouds do it. You, too, can be unhappy if you taaaa...
Biographer Maisie Ward was entitled to a contented sigh when she finished Gilbert Keith Chesterton nine years ago. It was (and is) the most thorough account ever written of that man-mountain of modern English letters. But Author Ward's book was hardly off the presses before she began to find fascinating new bits and pieces of Chestertoniana. Return to Chesterton is her 336-page postscript...
...Commonwealth, men & women who honored Britain's dead King observed two minutes of silence. Buses halted; miners stopped work at coal faces; passengers in British planes stood up. As Union Jacks fluttered to full staff once more, a tweedy British lady drew her breath in a quick sigh. "There," she announced, starting briskly for home, "the flags are up again. Life must...
...Little man at control panel in corner narrowly averts tragedy by switching Old 19th onto another track. The 20th starts up. Goes at full gallup toward Old 19th. Tension is high. Control man pushes button and 20th takes first right turn, missing Old 19th by inches. Crowd breathes sigh of relief. Gamins boo, suddenly spot me. I duck behind peppermint striped door. Shapely young thing almost dressed in red asks me sweetly if I want to see Santa Claus. Gamins cheer from doorway. Little girl cries. I smile weakly...