Word: murmures
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...Darling, isn't it too wonderful? We're winning." Upstairs, in his map-lined office, Tory Party Chief Lord Woolton lovingly contemplated a constituency map. "Blue's a lovely color," he beamed as he contentedly flagged Tory wins with blue-headed pins. Downstairs, someone dared to murmur: "Those horrible Labor divisions in Scotland haven't come in yet." But the Cassandra was howled down by a fresh wave of cheering as still another Tory win was chalked...
...Opeara Glass" was invented by Aurex' Walter H. Huth. The little whisper-catcher is an inconspicuous cylinder which can be concealed in a pocket and raised to the ear at interesting moments. Inside is a complete battery-powered amplifying system capable of boosting a lovers'-lane murmur into clear-voiced dialogue. Inventor Huth primly suggests that his little tattler will be useful for, among other things, 1) listening to sermons, and 2) helping foxhunters catch the bay of distant hounds...
...whole good," some would say with jerky glances over their shoulders. "I say join the Communists in Japan, but I want to wait and see what conditions are really like first." At times, when one of the dyed-in-the-wool Communists passed, the voices would die to a murmur...
...Young Penney, frail and ailing, had gone West for his health from Hamilton, Mo., where he grew up in poverty on the farm of his father, an unpaid Baptist preacher. From the age of eight, young J.C. had to buy his own clothes; at 19 heard his dying father murmur: "Jim will make it. I like the way he has started...
...Education Committee of the Massachusetts legislature at the end of March. Even its sponsor did not hold out much hope for its passage. But H442 has gained a lot of momentum since then. It passed the House of Representatives Wednesday by a voice vote, with not a single dissenting murmur, and has been sent to the Senate for consideration...