Word: hums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fourth floor executive dining room, next to the gymnasium and steam room. The hard, magnificent old man was graciously interested in Tony's war record. He was even more interested, if less conversational about Miss Kerr. But the demitasses were hardly drained before things began to hum at the studio. Deborah knew that she had passed Test...
...poor quality. In Sheffield 20,000 steelworkers had an enforced six-day Christmas holiday while firms scraped together enough coal to carry on. Day after the holidays, absenteeism reached 80% in one mine. But 95% of the men showed up that night to collect their pay. The hum of industry was turning everywhere into a mournful wail: "We have only three days' stock of coal in hand...
...hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs, Thousands of little boys & girls raising their innocent hands...
...Rossia eased away from the quay into the gathering murk, lights blazed in a tiny Russian church, erected in the backyard of Marseilles' only Russian restaurant. A reverent hum came from the windows. Said the owner of the restaurant, a former ballet dancer in the Russian Imperial Theater: "We are also praying for those who are leaving...
...Stadium gale . . . . the Yale tooters looked blue all the way through in the flimsy outfits as the wind whipped through the loose-fitting uniforms . . . the Harvard Band started out with the temporary advantage of a lull in the storm, but the Crimson stands burst into a consternated hum when their drum major, failed in two attempts to catch his baton after throwing it over the goal posts...