Word: sighingly
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During World War II, the U.S. Armed Forces radio piped overseas such native noises as Lana Turner's sigh, an umpire shouting "Play Ball!" at Ebbets Field, the whimper of a puppy. Last week, from Gibraltar to Korea, British soldiers & sailors were also hearing the sounds of home. A BBC overseas program called You Asked for It carried such nostalgic sounds as the chime of Southampton's Civic Center clock striking 8, the rumble of the Welsh express going through the Severn tunnel, the Dunstable Salvation Army band blowing itself "pink in the face beside the traffic lights...
...pornographic novels and postcards, and were awaiting the owner's arrival. The owner, however, hastened to a district judge and got a magic writ called an amparo. When he walked into the store soon afterward and the detectives tried to arrest him, he produced the amparo. With a sigh of frustration, the cops shut the books and went away. The bookseller could be reasonably sure that they would not bother him again for another three months...
...irrigable portion called Maestria because it needs skill to work it. The least desirable includes the land of San Francesco e Marucaro and some parts of Vallegrande. Then there are the middling lands, the Cuocino, partly dotted with olive groves. Nocella drew a poor San Francesco plot. A long sigh went through the crowd. The next name drew a middling plot. The crowd lost some of its tenseness...
...Just Human." The President's apology did not alter the fact that he was deadset against giving the Marines a bigger role in the nation's defense plans. But before the week was out, a small, uncertain sigh of relief was to run through the Democratic Party; the President, by his forthright if not abject apology, had fixed things-partly, at least. But there was some headshaking...
...wish to state firmly once more my unbreakable decision . . . not to accept such an intent, and to call on persons working for that end to desist." The Congressmen's responding roar was the day's most deafening. Every ambitious politico among them heaved a great sigh of relief as he saw the track cleared for the 1952 race. Very likely one of the aspirants present in the hall might be the winner. All he had to do now was go out and get the right backing-most particularly the backing of Miguel Alem...