Word: murmuring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...doctors come to err so often? Their commonest stumble was a "functional" (i.e., not organic) heart murmur, of a type which Dr. Goldwater describes as "transitory, innocent." Sometimes they were misled by high blood pressure. Other errors were more surprising: tuberculosis, cancer of the stomach and latent syphilis were all mistaken for heart trouble...
...library lies about 80 yards from the house at the end of the walled garden, and escape is comparatively easy. "Well, well, you never can tell," the judge will murmur, looking into the sunset over the heads of the family group seated on the terrace. He gets up as if to flick his cigar ash into the shrubs, strolls, aimlessly for a moment, and then unobtrusively ceases to be among those present...
...their proud and haughty necks to the harness of carts, and that, like beasts of burden, they have dragged to the abode of Christ these wagons? . . . Often a thousand persons are attached to the chariots-so great is the difficulty-yet they march in such silence that not a murmur is heard . . . When they halt on the road, nothing is heard but the confession of sins, and pure and suppliant prayer...
...woman's voice said something above the general murmur of the crowd. The little man in black turned to her and gasped. "How dare you say such things. You're disgraceful, I'm very much ashamed to hear you say such things...
...Shakespearean Webster hoped "that the shade of Verdi may be heard to murmur 'I have not been betrayed.' " A first-rate cast was listed to do its part: Veteran Soprano Zinka Milanov as Aiïa, Elena Nikolaidi as Amneris, new Italian Tenor Mario del Monaco as Radames and George London as Amonasro. Some first-nighters might even hear Verdi's shade murmur,"In better shape than...