Word: murmur
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...something of the quietly gala atmosphere of matches at Lord's in London. The teams (bearing such names as Grenada, Windsor, Trinidad) disport their flannels, blazers and visored beanies against a background of picture hats and parasols. The crowd's applause almost never rises above a musical murmur. Between innings, there is a tea interval...
...better. The 15 big non-operating unions (1,100,000 members) got 9-to 11?-an-hour raises, though they had been willing to take 8?. Economic Stabilizer Fred Vinson had turned down 8? as inflationary; now he blandly approved an even higher pay boost. No one heard a murmur about inflation from Judge Vinson...
...groom with incomprehensible outcries of good nature, and her husabcand's kinfolk, wistful and old, treasuring her as if she were some lovely, fragile, enameled doll, she moved into a world of enchantment. When she dreamed with Niles in the warm, sweet air, savoring the dense, multitudinous murmur of night, watching the mansion, she knew that like her husband she would never be able to live anywhere else...
...panoply of royalty in Madrid. He appears at public functions surrounded by an entourage of aides and has a lordly way of refusing to see foreign ambassadors in person. Madrid gossips have long whispered that Franco dreams of founding a dynasty of his own. He might, they murmur, marry off his young daughter, Carmencita, to the Duke of Veragua, scion of a famous bull-raising family and descendant of Christopher Columbus...
...below, stores and measures the residue. If there is a "moon faced" young man about the house who .discourses upon art, life, love, employs trite French phrases, "inevitably the day will come (even if you he ve to wait for it for many years) when h^ will sigh and murmur...