Word: murmuring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last five miles are really tough," he added, "especially when the little kids get out and start racing you." His mother, who had been fasting for 24 hours, could only murmur "Thank God he's safe" as he crossed the finish line. Mirkin has decided to give up marathoning...
...bank would lend a reported $20 million to $27 million for imported equipment and machinery. As for the rest. Finance Minister Carlos Villaveces has promised that "the government will see this through, come what may." To help raise funds, the government recently doubled Cauca Valley land taxes, without a murmur of complaint from the hopeful landholders...
...Folies orchestra, and 20 superb girls dressed as Italian soldiers charged bravely across the stage, each with one breast bared, as cheers rang out and flags waved. In 1918 the first Folies nude appeared. She was "a delicious blonde." Each evening there was a deep hush, followed by a murmur of admiration when she appeared on stage, transported in a flower-decked chariot and clad only in a crown of flowers and a sparkling smile...
...grim fatalism. There is an incessant blowing of horns, but since all the horns sound alike (apparently having been made in the same factory), the result is a constant and unidentifiable shriek, except for horns on the cars of commissars which have a slightly varied pitch, at the first murmur of which the cops switch the manually operated traffic lights to green. Says U.S. Travel Expert John Stanton, just back from surveying the possibility of Cook's touring through Russia: "In Moscow I always hesitated before starting across a street. They are so wide you are vulnerable...
...other public discussion of President Eisenhower's heart was added last week a recommendation from Cleveland's noted Heart Surgeon Claude S. Beck which stirred up a loud murmur of controversy. The recommendation: that Ike be examined in six months and, "if this proves the risk to be not too great," that he submit to heart surgery to extend his life expectancy and permit him to carry a bigger work load...