Word: murmur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Glider Crackup. Suddenly our pilot reached up, hesitated a fraction of a second, then smacked the tow release lever. With a twang like a snapped harp string, the long white towing cable vanished. The pounding thunder of air dropped to a murmur...
...knew what that rushing sound was trying to say, It had all been said before. It had saddened and sobered him when sounds of departure had only been a murmur, but now the sound of hopeful goodbyes was a deep chorus. It didn't matter much what had gone before, it would come again. What mattered was that the waiting which had never been anything but waiting was at an end. There would be no more gradual, lonely leavings. It was all at once and all together now and too important to be lonely...
...said the Father Prior, "it is just as impossible for you to acquire grace by doing nothing except murmur 'Amita-Buddha' all day long...
...Army's physical examiners in Manhattan young Dan Lurie unveiled the flabbergasting body that had won him the title of "Most Muscular Man in America" in 1942. Despite the fact that he could do 1,625 pushups, back to body building went Lurie, rejected for a slight heart murmur...
...possible to see the bereaved mother sitting in the middle of the assembly holding a small child. She seemed almost in a stupor. All the relatives leaned forward to see what it was all about. When they realized that I, a foreigner, had brought the widow money, a murmur of astonishment escaped them. . . . The money which I gave the mother seemed to daze her still more. When they made her understand that the money was actually hers and all that she was expected to do was to sign a receipt, she simply became wide-eyed. Her signature consisted...