Word: murmures
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...Deke") Slayton, the man who selects and trains the astronauts. The professionalism of the Apollo crews is a reflection of Slayton's success-but leaves him less than totally fulfilled. Though he was chosen as one of the original seven U.S. astronauts in 1959, a mild heart murmur prevented him from ever venturing into space. When he was asked recently what he would best like to be remembered for, Slayton replied: "As the pilot of Apollo 11." There was no smile on his craggy face...
...father was killed, a hanging is in progress. The hanging has all the attributes of a county fair--people spreading picnic baskets, hawkers threading through the crowd, and all stores closed for the main event. When the trap is pulled, Maddy momentarily stops munching on her peach to murmur "Goodness!" and decides that this town has the right judge for Chance. Grit indeed...
...winter Harvard, today's summer students appear to be spending more time in the Lamont Library, and less roaming the streets of Cambridge looking for their lifelong (or summerlong, at least) mate. In fact, a few Faculty members who have taught summer classes have even been heard to murmur that their summer students study more seriously than the Harvard-Radcliffe breed...
...leaves her husband, an insurance exec, and her children for a stay at Illyria, a 500-acre arts preserve where writers, musicians, painters and sculptors create in secluded studios beneath hemlocks and pines. Tap-tap, tinkle-tinkle, scrape-scrape go the creative artists. Presumably, the hemlocks and pines murmur...
...freely stating one's convictions and opinions. For this, he was terribly hated by those who believe that people exist to create a backdrop for leaders, to applaud and shout 'hurrah' for them, to believe in them blindly, to pray for them, to endure without murmur all scorn of them selves and to quack with pleasure when into his trough they pour more and richer fodder than into the other troughs...