Word: hums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...CRIMSON moguls got new hope when it was announced that New York's last publishing daily, the Herald Tribune, has also suspended publication in order no to be "a lever" used to force a strike settlement. With this vast new source of material, the wire services again began to hum from Cambridge to New York
...last two years, Defiance has come to have a good deal of affection for the McCanns, too. Since Kevin McCann took over as president in 1951, the college has begun to hum with new hope. An industrial engineer who enlisted...
Tall, earnest Harold L. Hathorn, 30, came with his pretty blonde wife Clyde Marie and things really began to hum. The women of the church gave three dinners at which they raised $1,200 for the new building. Then they sat down and began writing letters-to prominent Mississippians, to former "Egyptians" who had moved away, to leading U.S. church figures, asking for $10 from each. Last spring the $12,000 brick church was finished except for the pews...
...Ship. As the Sverdlov loomed through the early morning mist, a hum of excitement spread through the dockyard city of Portsmouth: she was the first Russian warship to visit Britain since the war. Old hands quickly noted that she was trim and tidy, that she was correctly dressed overall to honor the Duke of Edinburgh's birthday. Royal Navy liaison officers also marked her power (twelve 6-in. guns in paired turrets fore & aft, twelve dual-purpose guns, ten torpedo tubes, double sets of minelaying cables) and her probable speed (35 knots). Said the Admiralty: "We find her very...
...sets the mood with chapter headings that consist of fine, nostalgic bits of flotsam from the Bissell memory (e.g., "No knowledge of music is necessary, merely place kazoo to lips and hum your favorite tune''1). His love scenes, which he plainly relishes, are never tedious. ("'The question is,' I said into the sweet smelling hair, 'whether a man of my age could become a Hotel Executive without any previous training. Your hair smells like springtime in Comiskey Park.' ") And the conversation around the plant sounds almost as if it had been taken down...