Word: murmurings
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Radcliffe took up field hockey, with a murmur of "Sissy" in Princeton's direction, about 50 years ago. The Annex girls of those days played the game in coat sweaters buttoned up to here and droopy bloomers extending down to about here. The 1947 stick-swingers wear cherry tunics and shorts...
...band of heretics among modern intellectuals: an intellectual who believes in God. It is not a mild and vague belief, for he accepts "all the articles of the Christian faith"-which means that he also believes in sin and in the Devil. After sneezing, he was once heard to murmur that it was "because of the Fall." He was referring, not to the season, but to the Fall of Man, which Christian theology holds responsible for the major disorders of mankind. Lewis is scornful of many modern intellectual and moral fashions: he thinks a Christian can do worse than imagine...
...faint tip over the saw-toothed mountains that circle the walled Korean capital, feeble lights went on in Seoul's tiny, one-room houses. White-coated Koreans gathered in little groups on street corners or hurried home to join curious family circles, and there was an unaccustomed murmur in the air. All through the city rustled the same earnest talk and in all the talk there was the one phrase "sin tak"-trusteeship...
...Indians murmur of these things. On one hand, says Juan, the Government argues that the spreading epidemic is a great national evil; everyone should contribute to stamping out the disease. On the other hand, local Sinarchist leaders (clerical fascists) shout that the campaign is turning the country into a vast slaughterhouse, that it will take more than a million cattle deaths to stamp out the disease. They argue until a man's head aches that campesinos are not being paid enough for their losses, that most of the sick cattle get well by themselves, that the 'European...
...last-minute change in the meeting's site, made to accommodate the overflow crowd, resulted in a mad hegira to New Lecture Hall that caused British poet Auden to murmur, "It was rather frightening...