Word: murmures
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...Right this way," the barkers used to murmur softly on the streets of Kabuki-cho, Tokyo's red-light district. "She'll show you everything!" No more. Responding to the cries of outraged citizens' groups and local businesses, the Japanese government cracked down last week on adult or, in the Japanese term, "pink" entertainment. Among the new regulations: all pink neon out by midnight, no more come-ons from bar girls, no new massage parlors in restricted areas, no new love hotels near schools or libraries. And no lewd barkers...
Soviet officials have also begun to murmur the name of the "vacation spot" where Chernenko may be staying. It is the so-called Kremlin Hospital, a heavily guarded facility seven miles northwest of the Kremlin in an exclusive, wooded suburban area known as Kuntsevo. Traffic police who may be KGB men are stationed every quarter-mile along the two-lane road that leads to the heavily guarded hospital, which is nestled among silver birch and oak trees and surrounded by an unpainted, 10-ft.-high cement wall...
...didn't take long for Shula to go from Woodley to Marino. At the sixth week of last season, the quarterback with the twinkle in his eye lost his first start in such an entertaining style that the coach was moved to murmur later, as he had never muttered after a victory, "The thrill is back." Three and three then, the Dolphins finished the regular season 12 and 4 before losing a playoff to Seattle, and Marino was the first rookie quarterback ever anointed to open the Pro Bowl. He began this second year with five touchdown passes against...
...alike described him as darkly depressed by the 1982 death of his wife Aliza and the continuing toll of a war that was supposed to have been a swift success. Toward the end of his tenure, when a caller complimented him on the invasion of Lebanon, he could only murmur, "But the casualties, the casualties...
These men, no longer angry, now speak in an empty murmur...