Word: murmurings
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...Southern Murmur. "Gorty" Gortatowsky's office in Manhattan's bustling Hearst Publications Building has no name on the door. It is tucked down a back hall, past a Good Housekeeping beauty clinic. The only thing that distinguishes its ascetic furnishings is a miniature American flag on the desk, standard equipment for all top Hearst executives...
Gortatowsky's physical slightness is concealed by skilled double-breasted tailor ing; his keen-edged, taskmasterish mind is concealed by a lulling Southern murmur and a beatific smile. Of all ways to get ahead in the Hearst empire-beyond the first essential, obedience-Gorty chose one of the shrewdest: unobtrusiveness...
...murmur of worried conversation turned to cries of fright when the guards unlocked the two doors and hurled in acetate, dousing the tinder-dry buildings and splashing over the prisoners crowding close to the only routes of escape...
When Dr. Richardson got to know them, Catherine had come to the New York Hospital clinic for a heart murmur. He later found that Mrs. Q was bothered by a gastric ulcer, that Mr. Q habitually vomited sometimes 20 times a night, that Agnes had a well-developed case of anorexia nervosa (nervous rejection of food). Both parents had very bad teeth...
Except for this feral foible, the Bororos are quiet folk. Their hearing is abnormally acute, their language so low in pitch that it is difficult for a white man to hear them. They often sit on stumps at a considerable distance from one another and murmur softly. Apparently each Bororo is muttering to himself. Actually they are telling stories which are the primitive stuff of all humor. Sample: "Once upon a time the jaguar had a fight with the rabbit. The rabbit won!" Then all the Bororos burst out laughing...