Word: hisses
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...Stable Boy leaned in towards Frederick’s ashen face, his voice now tinged with a vindictive hiss. “Sophie used to change your soiled bedsheets. She used to bring you eggs at breakfast. But when little Frederick’s disgusting little wishes had all been seen to, then she was free to sneak off to the study, where your father was waiting in all his decrepitudinous lust...
...once vibrant economy he has crippled. But the extraordinary protest - Mugabe affected not to notice his hecklers, speaking on quickly but sternly though few could hear him - was, nevertheless, a direct jeer at the man who has ruled for almost three decades, a kind of national hiss after years of beatings and frustration...
...fish mirror the behavior of investors, making stock-market predictions more reliable. Murray Gell-Mann, a Nobel Prize--winning physicist and a co-founder of SFI, likes to cite the case of physicist Karl Jansky, who founded the science of radio astronomy in 1931 when he was studying the hiss of electromagnetic static that bathes the Earth--part of the same hiss you hear on a car radio. Jansky realized that the sound was caused not by atmospheric disturbances but by ancient signals streaming to us from the very center of the galaxy. What everyone else heard as noise, Gell...
...Hillary Clinton supporters in the audience that the committee was not going to go their way. "I was incredibly proud to come down here as a student on the mall and listen to Dr. Martin Luther King talk about civil rights," said Germond, as the crowd simultaneously began to hiss, cheer and shush, her voice being drowned out by the roar. "We are not the current administration who plays lose with rules," Germond continued, her voice rising a little desperately to dampen down the onslaught of outrage that was just beginning. "I'm feeling very badly that...
...noticed one odd side effect, however: though quieter than the Silvia, the X7 makes a small, pneumatic hiss during brewing that consistently sent Sticky into heavy-panting, tongue-lolling shock. One morning the noise made the dog jump into the shower with my daughter--and Sticky hates water. Illy says he has never heard of such a thing but notes that even perfection can be perfected. "There is never an end to possible improvements," he says. "It's an endless process." Perhaps. But I still love to fiddle, so I'm sticking with Miss Silvia. You can pry her from...