Word: sighingly
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...morning most of them were dozing. The plane, bound from Los Angeles to Chicago and New York, rode 21,000 ft. over the earth at 300 miles an hour, and the dimly lighted cabin was quiet except for the muffled drone of the engines and the sigh of ventilating...
That night 80,000 queremistas jammed the Vale of Anhangabaú, a grassy park amid São Paulo's skyscrapers. "Workers of Brazil!" boomed Getulio. There was a sigh from the crowd, and then a roar: "Getulio! Getulio!" He spoke for an hour, recited his "conquests" for Brazilian workers. If elected, said Getulio, he would back more social legislation. He would provide free land for the poor. He bore malice toward none...
...convene on the constitutional date of July 20, had bowed to a decree by Conservative President Ospina Pérez forbidding the meeting but granting the Congressmen's usual 600-peso monthly allowance. Some of the Liberals did meet-in the Hotel Granada Rose Room. Sneered El Sigh's columnist, Julio Abril: "They deliberated over a bottle of Vat 69, taking the matter not only with great calm but also with soda...
...year ago, the picture was demoted to a dark corner of the National Gallery's canteen; only a handful of sentimental oldtimers objected. Last week the painting was banished to the vaults. Its disappearance was little noted. London's Evening Standard fetched a mild editorial sigh: "Many people, of course, maintain that this is not a 'good picture.' But it is, at least, a sort of institution, and a very English affair at that...
...from Washington, was, as usual, quite prepared to make his own decisions in his new command. During World War II he had been an aloof figure who avoided interference from his nominal superiors, worked out his problems in his own way. His independence had once prompted Franklin Roosevelt to sigh: "I wish MacArthur would tell me these things...