Word: murmuring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyes blazing as if he were on the podium, conducting energetically and singing the music to himself. When he came to a particularly affecting passage in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony or his Missa Solemnis, Toscanini sometimes wept openly. Tears rolling down his cheeks, he would sit back and murmur to himself. "I cannot believe it. I cannot imagine such a man [as Beethoven...
...delegation predicted "a marked reduction" in U.S. economic aid next year. As if to prove their growing self-confidence, the Europeans accepted it without a dissenting murmur. The Europeans, however, are nervously waiting to see whether the Eisenhower Administration will cut import duties or raise them. They expect no real answer until next March, when the Randall Commission, appointed by President Eisenhower to recommend changes in U.S. tariffs, makes its report. ¶Italy's Premier Giuseppe Pella complained that OEEC works to Italy's detriment because it does nothing to help solve the problem...
...keenly for the first signs of the mass breakout they dreaded. Korean veterans called the Indians one of the best outfits they had seen -cracker-crisp Rajputana Rifles in bottle-green turbans and berets, Dogras. Jats. Mahrattas, disciplined so they could take P.W. spittle in the face without a murmur, which they often...
...Wimbledon champion, Seixas, Is nothing if not efficeixas. He delivers his ace With incredible pace, While the rest of us murmur "Good greixas...
David Looby sat on the veranda of his brown, one-story frame house on a humid Chicago night last week, and listened bitterly to a murmur of voices on the porch of Neighbor Mark Deady across the street. David Looby, 53, is an ordinary citizen, a stocky municipal electrical foreman who earns $650 a month and goes regularly to Sunday Mass at St. Margaret of Scotland Roman Catholic Church. But he nursed an extraordinary hatred for a clerk named Ralph Adams who had been courting 35-year-old Mary Deady for five years. Reason: Ralph Adams was in the habit...