Word: sighingly
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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...
...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...
...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...
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...
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...