Word: murmured
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...matter of fact, if you just scored the individual winners in last year's meet, Princeton would have edged the aquamen nine to eight. But 32 of the 90 finalists wore Crimson suits. Harvard's depth was so overpowering that one opposing coach was heard to murmur that it was nice of the Crimson to invite everyone else to its intrasquad meet...
...Beautiful. 'O beautiful for heroes proved/ In liberating strife," he sang from the podium on the Capitol's West Front, where in minutes Reagan would be sworn in as President. At that moment, the news began to spread of a wire-service bulletin, "Hostages free." A murmur emanated from those in the vast crowd who had brought their radios...
...debilitating end of the Boer War, three Australian soldiers are brought to court-martial. The charge: murdering some Boer "civilians" they have captured in a vengeful raid, along with a German missionary whose death has provoked a murmur of international reproach. The soldiers' commander, Lord Kitchener, wants to make an example of them so as to disarm world opinion about his unedifying conduct of a nasty...
...diagnosed as having mitral valve prolapse, a slight deformation of one of the four valves of the heart. The condition, not generally dangerous, is thought to be shared by up to 15% of Americans, but it produces a distinct heart noise, and so is known as the "systolic-click-murmur" syndrome. He has no symptoms but has been advised to take penicillin before undergoing dental work because infection sometimes spreads through bleeding gums. The antibiotic is intended to ward off a bacterial infection to the heart, something to which people with this valve condition may be susceptible. ¶Jimmy Carter...
...demonic idea that if they would only explain themselves fully in the midst of seeming scandal or time of harassment-let it all hang out, lay their cards on the table, spare no detail, be up front, come clean-and so forth -then the grateful, enlightened public would murmur "I see," and all would be swell...