Word: hummed
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Though intramural competition is intense, the clan swarm like bees around a queen when one member makes a louder hum than the others. Thus, when Teddy was a brawny end at Harvard, every Kennedy became an expert football coach and traveled in T-formation to Cambridge on autumn Saturdays to watch him play. In Bobby's heyday as the grand inquisitor of the Senate McClellan committee, when he was making Jimmy Hoffa squirm, the clan became totally absorbed in the investigation, discussed it over every dinner table and every long-distance telephone call and beat a path...
...squatting students hurled themselves forward. They beat on the car with fists and poles, hammered its body and kicked the locked doors. Glass cracked in the windshield. The mob began rocking the car in rhythmic time to a chant of "Go hoh-mu, Ha-gachee!" or "Yan-kee. go hum!" Thousands of other students who had been snake-dancing and marching near by rushed to join in. A Socialist member of Parliament, wearing a red sash, looked on approvingly from the sidelines and puffed at a cigarette...
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...familiar with Hilda Hyams' "hum" down to the last mmm. But it seems it is not peculiar to "the drowsy county of Kent" in England [May 23]. We live within "humming" distance of the berth-place of the atomic submarines and I have taken for granted the nocturnal hummings in the area for six years...
...pleased, however, to know that the hum is universal and not just a product of my New England neighborhood. Misery loves company. MRS. ROBERT ZABARSKY New London, Conn...