Word: murmures
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...four water maidens push a water-borne platform on which a trim, silver-skirted ballerina does a lotus dance. The whole thing ends with singers diving off the stage into the river, and with blubbery "eunuchs" being tossed out of boats. The Rhine takes it all with hardly a murmur...
...band of Communists aboard and hid them in the fish tank. At sea, the Trojan horse was opened, the armed Reds seized the trawler's officers and sailed into Murmansk. (The shipping company afterwards billed the Soviet government for the trawler; the bill was paid without a murmur.) In Moscow, Comrades Trotsky, Lenin and Stalin gave Wollweber a hero's reception. In his brief stay there, Wollweber sensed that Stalin was the man to back in the party struggle then brewing, and he bet his future on it. Wollweber and Stalin have been personal friends since...
Rocky Jordan (Wed. 8 p.m., CBS), "long on nerve and short on talk," and played by Hollywood's George Raft, runs Cairo's Cafe Tambourine, where he matches wits with camel drivers, Moslem fanatics, suave villains, and beddy-bye blondes who murmur: "Be nice to me, Rocky." On the opening show the plot was a scramble for some nonexistent diamonds, nearly as silly as the dialogue...
...House, though, was in no saving mood, for it was busy examining its own budget. By voice vote and without a dissenting murmur, the House laid out $22.8 million for itself and another $37.5 million for general congressional expenses. There was $20,000 to provide a new trunk and two wooden footlockers (an old custom) for each Representative; $2,000 for ice; funds for subsidized (50?) haircuts; a $132,400 increase in the stationery allowance and a $700,000 increase in telephone and telegraph expenses; $199,500 for the Capitol Botanic Garden; $20,000 to complete the frieze around...
Instead of an outcry, Harry Truman's invitation was greeted by an embarrassed murmur at the bad taste in lumping together the Korean dead, traffic dead and partisan politics all in one petulant outburst...