Word: hummed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People at arty New York cocktail parties think the bearded man in the shabby clothes who is sometimes invited is a hum, but unlike the other residents of the Bowery, Gould is not a shambling, blank-expressioned alcoholic. He has a spark of vigor--some people call it exhibitionism--and a broad Harvard A that sets him apart from the rest...
...Private Bert Brennke, of Waterloo, Iowa stepped gingerly along a snow-covered road on the Belgian front, operating a mine detector. He would not let himself be distracted by an odd sound, different from the hum produced in his earphones by the presence of a mine...
Miss Young is wholly incapable of catching the wretched undertones which hum between her fiancé (Barry Sullivan) and her sister (Susan Hayward), who love each other. She is also a born snob, insensitive to the rumblings of proletarian Shantytown as conveyed by her doctor, who was born there and will never forgive her for it. Since the doctor spends most of his time snarling at her, as she can readily discern by reading his lips, she is perhaps less to be blamed for not realizing that he loves...
South Africa's Prime Minister Jan Christian Smuts has also tried for years to temper the country's harsh anti-Indian color laws. The latest of them, which has caused South Africa's voteless Indians to hum like a swarming hive, is a Natal ordinance dividing the whole province into Jim Crow residential zones. Smuts...
...freewheeling chair back from his cluttered desk and sits still for a minute chewing reflectively on the tip of his cigaret holder. At such moments the deep lines in Roosevelt's face suggest that he is listening to some sound that pleases him-as though the subdued hum of the household behind the closed door, the murmur of the capital beyond the curtained windows, and further away still the vast chatter of the continents all blended together for him into a sort of music in whose warm and complex counterpoint he found comfort and a sense of ultimate harmony...