Word: murmur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...international incidents go, the Adolf Eichmann case was always more sound than fury. Last week, after a short outburst, even the sound subsided into a polite diplomatic murmur...
...Playing his first cricket match on a pickup Oxford team, Army's former All America Halfback Pete Dawkins cracked out a "boundary," the equivalent of a home run, moved Oxford's Captain Alan Smith to murmur, "Jolly good, oh, say, jolly good." But Rhodes Scholar Dawkins, who startled the British last year by mastering rugby, shrugged off his feat: "It would take me 80 years to become a good cricket player...