Word: murmuration
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charge. A tasseled turban flies above his fierce, lean face, and the wind turns his wide, baggy pants into balloons. A rifle is slung across his back, and from the sash about his waist there hangs a great, curved dagger. As he reins up, he scowls ferociously and you murmur "Salaam" or "Marhaba" in greeting. Then, chances are, he will turn without a word or a sign, and gallop back across the valley and up the hill to tell his people, invisible across the ridge, that there is another damn foreigner poking about their land...
When Senator Millikin had finished reading the 6,000-word platform, the convention adopted it by voice vote, without a murmur of dissent. It was a workmanlike piece of fast political carpentry-and, except for the foreign-policy plank, about as inspiring as an orange crate. Only in one field had the framers of the document agreed to a simple proposition, stated clearly, without fear or favor. "We pledge," said the plank, "a more efficient and frequent mail-delivery service...
...idea of having in the White House a first lady who "smokes Philip Morrises and plays canasta tirelessly [and] until three months ago, when her doctor asked her to swear off alcohol because of a heart murmur, she drank old-fashioneds at parties" [TIME, June 2] is going to cost Eisenhower a lot of votes...
...William as one of Britain's best journalists. An omnivorous reader (as many as 250 books a year), he has a diamond-sharp mind crammed with facts and ideas, which he uses with ice-cold efficiency. At BBC, he was a respected and stern director whose every murmur was a command, and who was good-naturedly known by staffers as "the man with two glass eyes...
...weekly to her son, Infantry Major John (who last week received orders to report to the Far East this summer-see NEWS in PICTURES). She smokes Philip Morrises and plays canasta tirelessly. Until three months ago, when her doctor asked her to swear off alcohol because of a heart murmur, she drank old-fashioneds at parties...