Word: murmur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had begun to murmur when the State took away their plain little red schoolhouses, gave them public schools. But they did not move away, like their Amish cousins, who went to Maryland. They muttered louder when draft officials sent their pacifist young men to camps for conscientious objectors. But when AAA sent its agents in and told them how much wheat they could grow on their fertile acres, the Mennonites decided they had stood enough. They held a meeting, agreed to emigrate to the free frontier soil of Paraguay...
...days later, when the Senate in Washington confirmed his permanent cormmission as a major general, Adna Chaffee was in a coma. Occasionally, his wife and doctors heard him murmur something about the U.S. flag, saw his body stiffen to attention in the bed. He had hoped to die on active service, with his tanks and troops at Fort Knox, Ky. Sick since last year, beaten by pain, he gave up his command three weeks ago and went to Boston, where he could be with his friend and physician, Dr. Edward Delos Churchill...
...conference there was scarcely more than a murmur against the Government's military or economic conduct. The tone of the Party leaders was set by the fervent rhetoric of Lord Privy Seal Clement Richard Attlee, which might well have come from a Conservative mouth: "All members of the Government are absolutely united. . . . There can be no parleying. There is no way out but the destruction of Hitlerism...
...trying in the Middle East. Only thus could the British hope to achieve the end of all British strategy: delay and more delay, until such day as parity and then superiority might possibly be won over the Axis. Therefore, as soon as Crete had fallen, the British began to murmur about taking Syria...
...human error and folly." One thing he was sure of: "the permanent existence of ... a solid layer of savagery beneath the surface of society. ... We move on a thin crust which may at any moment be rent by the subterranean forces slumbering below. From time to time a hollow murmur underground or a sudden spurt of flame into the air tells of what is going on beneath our feet...