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...distribution of UNRRA supplies. Vassily is a wiry little man with a tired, wizened face and instinctively gentle manners. His expression ordinarily was one of harassed patience. I never once saw him lose his temper, in spite of maddening and innumerable provocations. When they became unendurable, he would merely sigh, run his fingers through his rumpled tussock of greying hair and grit his stainless steel teeth. (That's the usual material for bridgework in the U.S.S.R. because of the shortage of dental porcelain...
...fact stood out clearly: the universal sigh of relief that greeted Stalin's peace coo showed how well the world understood that the only possible threat to peace came from Russia. Most reassuring point: the statement seemed to remove for the time being the greatest source of war danger-the possibility that the Kremlin might underestimate the power and purpose of the U.S. and Britain, and rashly precipitate a situation which would make war inevitable...
From London came an audible sigh. Moscow refrained from comment. Mr. Truman, extracted what comfort he could from the fact that he had acted, in the end, with respectable firmness; he had repaired the damage he had done to Byrnes's prestige. And now Henry Wallace could say what he liked and fight all he wanted for the policy which he espoused...
...fourth engineer scrawls F W E . . . on the log-board and we all sigh with relief. We have to work on, of course, but the voyage is over. 'Finished with the engines' about describes the effect intended by this book...
...hand, are equally ineffective because they have swallowed secularism whole. "Liberalism did not propose a radical criticism of [U.S.] culture in the light of the Christian faith. Instead, it proposed a radical criticism of the Christian faith in the light of modern culture. . . . It expressed itself chiefly in a sigh of intellectual relief when it heard wise men declare that Christianity was just as simple as doing good and that the profundities of the Gospel were, after all, virtually meaningless...