Word: murmured
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...objectives" of the nation's largest mortgage facility. Skeptics smiled wisely, knowing that such grand plans are often as not pulverized by the ponderous machinery of Government. Yet last week, when Lapin ordered a radical change in the way FNMA conducts its business, there was not a murmur of dissent from the frequently fractious housing industry...
...exceptions, but all too true, says Morse, was the epitaph that Polish-Jewish Poet Itzhak Katznelson wrote in his diary before he was gassed at Auschwitz: "Sure enough, the nations did not interfere, nor did they protest, nor shake their heads, nor did they warn the murderers, never a murmur...
...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...