Word: murmur
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...busy following the puck to see exactly what happened to Masterton next. Only a few watched his skates slip out from under him as he toppled backward. His head hit the ice, and blood gushed from his nose and ears. A teammate who rushed to his aid heard Masterton murmur, "Never again. Never again." Then he lost consciousness. Thirty hours later, Bill Masterton died from what doctors described as a "massive brain injury." He was the first player to be killed in the 51-year history of the N.H.L...
...losing the industrial war." Nonetheless, the French Assembly, which has had many a battle over appropriations for the force, has given up fighting De Gaulle over it. Last week, while Papa de Gaulle viewed his growing baby, it passed a new force de frappe budget with hardly a murmur of dissent...
...Your article reveals the thinking of candidate makers, which is as frivolous as the times are grave. They think only of vote appeal, with not so much as a murmur about fitness or stature. They forget, as they have in the past, that when it comes to the election itself, the public will take the issues of the day more seriously than they. It ceases to be a game-between human justice, the fate of nations and mankind, on the one hand, and on the other, a few slick party deals...
Torless never engages in the brutality, but he becomes a pliant onlooker-revolted by sadism, yet unwilling to murmur a word to the authorities. Even tually, the boys' nocturnal brutality cannot be contained in an attic; during one hysterical afternoon, the entire student body participates in an orgy of cruelty and hangs Basini by the heels...
...gala at the Paris Opera that glittered with the helmets of the Gardes Republicaines, and the dancing of Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn. It was all quite in character for a paper that once moved Charles de Gaulle to jest: "Each morning when its readers pick it up, they murmur: 'St. Figaro, reassure us.' " Pride in Speculation. Over the years, the paper has proved consistently reas suring to its affluent, conservative readership. Figaro prides itself on being no ordinary paper that merely dispenses the news. It has always had literary ambitions, and part of the front page every...