Word: murmures
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With her short hair, decisive manner, and well-pressed Army greens festooned with ribbons, Colonel Nancy Hopfenspirger, 43, is every inch an officer. As she strides across the U.S. Army base at Würzburg, West Germany, each day, G.I.s snap to attention and the local employees murmur a respectful "Guten Morgen...
...amendments were dispensed with and Chairman Rodino asked for the vote on the articles presented by Sarbanes, as amended slightly, even though all knew what the general outcome would be; the ensuing tense roll call was a moving, memorable moment. The only "Aye" that questionable caused a vote was murmur to that of ripple Froehlich, through the who cast a otherwise si soft lent crowd of fewer than 300 reporters and spectators...
...Murmur of the Heart is a comedy about the French bourgeoisie by the eclectic Louis Malle, light but not a triviality. The after-effects include at least fifteen minutes of one of those cartoon grins, like that on the mouse who is starstruck after getting hit by a sledgehammer--pure silly bliss. This is an okay emotion to have visited upon you, and this is a picture not to be missed. Playing at the Brattle with Stolen Kisses until Tuesday. The second show on the bill is a Truffaut tale about young Antoine Doinel; it's more incisively funny than...
When a worker falls ill or is injured, many large employers pay disability benefits without a murmur. The pregnant employee, however, generally gets no money for time taken as maternity leave. In a potentially far-reaching decision, Federal Judge Robert Merhige has found General Electric Co. guilty of sex discrimination in denying such benefits to pregnant workers. Ruling on a suit filed in 1972 by GE women, the judge dismissed the company's argument that pregnancy is incurred "voluntarily." Said he: "This standard is not applied in informal sports injuries, most of which could also be avoided by appropriate...
...among their key sources was a man whom the authors still tantalizingly refuse to name. They called him "Deep Throat," and report only that he was a preWatergate friend of Woodward's, a trusted and experienced Executive Branch official with "extremely sensitive" antennae that seemed to pick up every murmur of fresh conspiracy at the capital's power center...