Word: sighingly
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...careers-you sigh nostalgically that today's generation has no adventurous, imaginative lads ready to seek the weird heights, far away from the stereotyped big-company jobs. Well, your . . . generation has substituted oafish earnestness and the plodder's mentality for ability, brilliance, drive and talent . . . After all, it's easier to take the plodding, army-like promotions and security of big companies with two outings a year . . . live in a little house in the suburbs with a wife in Peck & Peck tweeds who knows all about zinnias and planned parenthood, and have two dirty-faced moppets playing...
Sparks & Singes. The democratic working was thanks primarily to one man, a tough-minded, energetic political pinwheel named Ramon Magsaysay (rhymes with bog-sigh-sigh). Magsaysay, who is only 44, first flashed into national view in September 1950, when President Quirino appointed him Secretary of Defense, and gave him broad authority. The sparks he has been shooting off since then have singed the once mighty Huks, ignited the tempers of bigwigs in his own Liberal Party, and fired the ardor of the common Filipino all over the islands...
...week's end Richard was on his way to the great Southwest. Irvington's cops heaved a sigh of satisfaction and relief. So did Irvington's steeplejacks-who have been shinnying up flagpoles for months, replacing ropes which Richard's pals swiped to lower Richard down skylights...
Sherman skipped. But when he returned to New York, he told the committee with a prodigious sigh, O'Dwyer refused to see him. Once they met at a policeman's funeral on the steps of St. Patrick's Cathedral. They shook hands warmly. When they parted, one of Sherman's detective friends came up to him and said: "What are you so friendly with that guy for? He's tapping your telephone." Sherman could hardly believe it. "We're not friendly now, Senator," he told the committee...
...What depth of shame do we lie in," muses the hero of The Dead Seagull, "when we sink back on the plush cushions of our disgust and sigh? It is the dog going back to his vomit, attracted to it by a simple miracle...