Word: murmuring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Young Germans have accepted military conscription without much murmur, but also without enthusiasm. Strauss has silenced those Germans who yelled "Bellhops" at his parading recruits by junking their first U.S.-style uniforms, with Eisenhower jackets and laced shoes, and presenting his countrymen with the sight of soldiers in tightly belted tunics and clumping leather boots and officers in the old familiar Wehrmacht-style high-peaked caps...
...portrait and the shelf. Then he had put his hand through his thin hair and sat down; Ford got up next, made a similar but even briefer speech, seconded the motion, smiled at Hall, and sat down. It was evident they had planned the motion and seconding. A murmur had gone through the twenty-five members of the department, a part of it tense and whispered. Briggs, an old hand at such meetings, sensed a difficult situation. There were full professors present who would not have been full professors if Greg had remained on the staff, and Briggs knew...
...begins a death scene that for temporal duration (18 minutes) and sentimental excruciation has scarcely been equaled since Sonny Boy kicked the bucket in The Singing Fool (1928). It is a masterpiece that should wring tears from an Ulsterman. But as the henchmen file piteously past the deathbed to murmur their last, tearful goodbyes, the serious sort first and the dopey guy last, many moviegoers may wonder where they have seen the heart-wrenching but somehow faintly silly scene before. A few may remember. It occurs, with only minor variations, in Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven...
...couple of minutes when Diana's sandy-haired brother, 14-year-old Bobby, slammed the front screen door, stomped familiarly back through the kitchen into the den. Resting the old gun on the TV, Diana took aim and shot him through the forehead, dropping him without a murmur amidst his scattered books...
...congestive heart failure; children may have no symptoms at all. Though the disease seems to be rare, it is being recognized more and more-but still only after death. When Barbara was six, her pediatrician found a slightly enlarged heart. It was not unusual, nor was the small heart murmur that another doctor found in Billy in infancy. Susan was also thought to have a minor heart enlargement, but all the children were healthy, energetic specimens. Their hearts seemed near normal, at least, and they suffered no undue strain or emotional upset. Their X rays and cardiograms were all "nonspecific...