Word: murmurings
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...tossed fitfully, next morning awoke complaining of agonizing stomach pains. With a medical student's precision, he diagnosed his poison as thallium, a paralyzing ingredient in certain rat poisons. Hurried to a hospital and placed in an iron lung, he came out of a coma long enough to murmur "Red Hand," the name of a counterterrorist organization which operates in West Germany and Belgium against suspected arms suppliers to Algerian French Africa. He also muttered something about having been served two glasses of Pernod. The first tasted "all right," the second was "bitter." Last week he died, and blood...
There is just enough plot-a fertilizer company threatens to evict Frank and another houseboat owner from their moorings-to string together the sort of dialogue in which Bissell slyly captures the murmur of the heartland. But at book's end-after Frank has married a girl with the greatest body in the Illinois River valley from Grafton clear to Joliet-it is clear that Author Bissell simply has not tried very hard...
...press notices were less ecstatic but favorable. On the last night of the troupe's three-day Moscow stint-they will return later, after touring other Russian cities-the audience included Russian Composer Aram Khatchaturian and Bolshoi Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, who was heard to murmur about one of the company's modern works: "I wish they would create something like that...
...international incidents go, the Adolf Eichmann case was always more sound than fury. Last week, after a short outburst, even the sound subsided into a polite diplomatic murmur...
...Playing his first cricket match on a pickup Oxford team, Army's former All America Halfback Pete Dawkins cracked out a "boundary," the equivalent of a home run, moved Oxford's Captain Alan Smith to murmur, "Jolly good, oh, say, jolly good." But Rhodes Scholar Dawkins, who startled the British last year by mastering rugby, shrugged off his feat: "It would take me 80 years to become a good cricket player...