Word: murmuring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Midnight. A 40-ft. boat pulls up, and an anguished murmur goes out from the 200 refugees on shore-the craft is too small. The buscones begin yelling and waving their machetes. Over two grueling hours, they crowd 111 people aboard the vessel; each passenger's legs spread to accommodate the person in front of him. When the voyage finally starts, there is no room to move. The ship is leaky and reeks of gasoline. Passengers vomit. Others sleep. By the time the sun rises, everybody is stiff and tense...
...military leadership is to blame for pursuing a line of total camaraderie with the U.S. A strong America promised billions of dollars in support, always dictating its own conditions. They were sometimes humiliating, but Yeltsin, Foreign Minster Andrei Kozyrzev, and Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin accepted them without a murmur. Now Yeltsin realizes he has given away too much, too fast. He knows patriotism and a healthy nationalism will be the watchwords in the next election, so he is trying to change horses and has made a number of statements against U.S. policies...
...Union. David Smith, who said he never once suspected his wife of the murders, is on paid leave from the Winn- Dixie, holed up in an apartment increasingly crowded with boxes of supportive letters -- many of them addressed simply "David Smith, Union, S.C." And the weary citizens of Union murmur among themselves, dreading the next act, in which the entire tragedy of Susan and David Smith must be replayed -- with no hope of changing the ending...
...teenage singer Aaliyah that is still on the Billboard charts (Madonna does list Aaliyah in the credits). Aaliyah and Babyface specialize in slick, soothing sounds, and Madonna adopts their aesthetic. The songs on this CD don't shout or rock, they purr and murmur...
...despite the impending gubernatorial and senatorial elections, there is scarcely a murmur of political energy on-campus. In an environment of approximately 6400 people, there is no visible tension or overflowing enthusiasm. There are no sit-ins or sit-outs, and very few buttons flyers, or signs...