Word: murmures
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...attached to its basket for the take-off, a person or persons hidden in the dense crowd exploded the balloon. Some observers speculated that the shot intended for the "accidental shooting" of the Nicaraguan ambassador (which did not come off) may have done the defeating. After a brief murmur of disappointment, the crowd dissipated...
...critics and the advance guard. The ordinary armchair Englishman is far more likely to prefer Geoffrey Cotterell. There are no great puzzles in Cotterell. A 31-year-old middle-class Englishman, Cotterell writes about other middle-class Englishmen in a manner designed to let the whole breed murmur to themselves: There but for the grace...
...Harvard and the other "leading education institutions consider their scholastic ratings and requirements so unimportant that they can, without as much as a faint murmur of protest, allow them to be arbitrarily placed but our Draft officials on a common level with those of every other college regardless of their varying standards...
...judge," Joe said, "you're just going to make him bitter. Just as bitter as I am. I was in jail. I know what they did to me there." There was a murmur in the packed courtroom. Joe looked defiant. "Sure I was in jail," he said. "I'm on the right side now, but-" he turned to face the jury, "I still have no respect for the law. How can I? Not when I see the cops cutting in on our crap games and card games. How do you expect us to have respect...
...came to power 104 years ago, it was scarcely surprising last week to find that the Ranas had won another match against Nepal's royal family. Watching their beaten King fly away in an Indian government airplane, the good people of Kathmandu could shake their turbaned heads and murmur the Nepalese equivalent for: "They never come back...