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Promptly, WLB set up machinery for immediate hearing of the strikers' grievances-a step it had refused to take as long as the strike lasted. And the U.S., settling back with a sigh of relief, reflected that the Good Girl had had a good case and got mad about it. Now she was temporarily mollified-but she might get mad again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Ladies! Ladies! | 12/4/1944 | See Source »

...long sigh of relief passed through Baker 100 yesterday as visions of mortgages or uniforms, long term (family) debentures vanished from our minds. The allowance had arrived. A little while longer and we'd have lost that instinct for thrift so necessary in a D.O. if his C.D.s aren't O.H. from the G.A.O. But now to hit the beach, as we say, for a long, sweet leave...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Lucky Bag | 11/7/1944 | See Source »

...September, . harassed London breathed a great sigh and shook hands with itself. The Canadian Army had overrun the robomb coast across the Channel: the hellish Things had stopped diving on the city and its environs. A week of blessed peace and quiet followed. Then the Things started coming again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Epilogue | 10/23/1944 | See Source »

When they finally laid him tenderly onto the canvas litter and straightened his left leg you could see the tendons relax and his facial muscles subside, and he gave a long half-groan, half-sigh of relief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Limies Have Guts | 9/4/1944 | See Source »

With scarcely an audible sigh, mesmerized Finland sank into the arms of Nazi Germany. The Germans took over with only a few companies of second-rate occupation troops to back up the fast and foamy talk of Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. The Nazis' proposition was simple: Germany would send six divisions if the Finns would keep up the fight and agree not to sign a separate peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FINLAND: Bewitched and Betrayed | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

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