Word: murmur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beautifully bred audience, which filled the house at $50 (in war bonds) to $5,000 a seat, responded by laying $4,036,000 on the line without a murmur-radio's biggest war-bond take for a one-night stand. Average purchase: $1,495. One enraptured dowager shelled...
...Hurlbut asks above the shellfire: 'Do any of you fellows mind if I say the Lord's Prayer?' We press him and he recites the prayer in a loud voice that fills the dugout above the noise of the guns and comforts us. We murmur 'Amen' when he is finished and sit in shocked silence while the earth continues to rock...
...arrive. Even when the royal red carpet was rolled out in Paddington Station, no official winked significantly. Said a loitering cabbie: "Naow, they told me the Queen was giving away chocolates." When the station's news vendor finally caught a glimpse of her, he let out a surprised murmur: "Well, who would have thought...
They drill after sundown in small groups, grimly determined to pivot smartly on the command of "Squads right." They swallow their bitterest potion-barrack life, bunk to bunk-without a murmur on the invasion of their privacy. (One WAAC did use her weekend liberty two weeks after induction to take a large double room in the Fort Des Moines Hotel and sit happily alone in the middle of it.) For four hours a day, for a full day and a half at week's end the WAACs can do what they please. When the study hall closes...
...dividing the House is the appropriation for the Farm Security Administration. That agency exists to enable marginal farmers to pay their way out of debt. The Farm Bureau, lobby of the wealthier farmers, has opposed the FSA since its natal day, and most Representatives have knuckled under without a murmur. As a result, the most important single agency treating the farm problem has been crippled...