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...sharply and whispered to Tory Whip Patrick Buchan-Hepburn. When the Speaker repeated the question Churchill and Buchan-Hepburn raised a loud Tory "no," and the Speaker called for a division of the House. The result: Aye, 304; No, 299. From the Labor benches came an audible sigh of relief...
...said Acheson with a sigh, "all that is changed." He had only to glance at his leather-bound log of the week's business to know just how much it had changed. The log was crammed with slam-bang protests, denunciations and propaganda broadsides from Iron Curtain countries, and the U.S. replies, just as forceful, bouncing back with the speed of rockets. At week's end his docket of urgent communications looked something like this...
...involves standards of comparison. It is easy to sigh for the days of Senators with tongues of silver and minds of steel, to forget that some of today's Senators rank high in character and vision, that few of the present Senators are as bad as some specimens of recent history-the Bilbos, Huey Longs, "Pappy" O'Daniels and "Cotton Ed" Smiths. Some are merely time servers and seat warmers who are as incapable of harm as of greatness. There are others whose antics are sometimes cheap and whose motivations are sometimes sordid. But their faults...
...Sigh of Relief. Other Italians understood him better. After the fall of Mussolini, they called Croce back into public life once more in Marshal Badoglio's cabinet. But his appearance was a brief one. With a sigh of relief he left public office for good, and went back home to a library that reached ladder-high ("How can a man live without books?"), and to a special Italian Institute of Historical Studies which he had long wanted to found...
...breathes a sigh of relief when the dangerous stuff goes off the grounds. The work has become routine; last year the plant made 4,715 shipments, an increase of 56% over 1947. Each shipment, besides accomplishing important scientific tasks,.trained more people to deal with the perils of the developing Atomic...