Word: murmures
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Well might politically sensitive Russians murmur...
...murmur went through the crowd. The Tricolor was going up on the tower of the cathedral whose stained glass windows Henry Adams once called "the Court of the Queen of Heaven." Beside the Tricolor waved the Stars & Stripes. Spontaneously the crowd began to sing the Marseillaise...
...sits still for a minute chewing reflectively on the tip of his cigaret holder. At such moments the deep lines in Roosevelt's face suggest that he is listening to some sound that pleases him-as though the subdued hum of the household behind the closed door, the murmur of the capital beyond the curtained windows, and further away still the vast chatter of the continents all blended together for him into a sort of music in whose warm and complex counterpoint he found comfort and a sense of ultimate harmony...
Ubico has heard the murmur. For years he planned "to leave the Presidency only for the cemetery." After El Salvador's revolt, he said: "A ruler should know in the seat of his pants when he ought to get out of his chair...
...peak of this victory, Alexander was told to give up his command to become General Eisenhower's deputy. He complied without a murmur, produced for his chief a battle plan that trapped 150,000 Germans in Tunisia. After the conquest of Sicily, in which he earned a large share of credit, he succeeded Eisenhower in Italy with the reputation in many quarters of being the ablest commander in Britain's service. Given a set of real chances, the officer long recognized as the most aggressive in the British Army had finally become a figure on the victory pages...