Word: murmurings
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...white man who attended a Negro civil rights rally as a spectator might well be puzzled to hear a speaker say "Now let's get down to the nitty-gritty." The white would probably also be baffled to hear Negroes in the audience murmur "He's facking!" when the speaker made a telling point. But the Negroes present would know perfectly well that the nitty-gritty of a situation is the essentials of it, and that facking means speaking facts, telling the truth...
...late in the ball game, and the Boston Red Sox are clinging to a one-run lead. But the Red Sox pitcher is tiring fast. He throws. Ball one. Another pitch, another ball - and another. The murmur starts in the box seats behind the Boston dugout. Swiftly it spreads through the grandstand and bleachers, picking up cadence, cresting in volume, until all Fenway Park is chanting in unison: "We want The Monster! We want The Monster! We want The Monster!" Manager Johnny Pesky obediently trots out and lifts one hand high above his head, the signal that means: "Send...
...Masters have clearly felt this challenge, for this is the moment they have chosen to murmur about cutting back parietal hours, and the Administration has offered a measure of support for a student union-whose principal function would be to offer undergraduates a place to entertain girls and hence give the Administration an excuse for cutting the hours when girls may be in the Houses. The significance of these rumblings is not that Harvard will actually enact more conservative rules, but that the response of the Masters to Radcliffe's growing liberalism and self-confidence will be reactionary rather than...
...Europe, and he is universally considered the best of the bebop pianists. He left New York in 1959, briefly emerging from the fog that had kept him close to mental hospitals since 1947. In Paris, he is distant, silent and alone. He scarcely talks to anyone except to murmur the two-line litany that describes his bleak fate. "Do you like me?" he will ask, and if the answer is yes, he says, "Then buy me a cognac." At The Blue Note, he sits slumped over the piano, ear cocked down to the keys, and he plays like...
...biggest producer, which was the first to announce price hikes in several categories of steel (TIME, April 19). One year earlier, the steel industry's ill-timed effort to raise prices had drawn a furious fusillade from the New Frontier. But this time there was only a mild murmur of protest from Washington and Palm Beach...