Word: murmurous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...longtime boss (38 years) of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, John Edgar Hoover is a rare fixture in Government. He is serving under his sixth President, always gets the money he wants without a murmur from Congress, has built an international reputation as a G-man who rounds up Communists with the same efficiency that he tracks down criminals. But every so often, Hoover comes in for criticism-Nebraska's Senator George Norris once called him "the greatest hound for publicity on the American continent." And last week, out of a clear blue Democratic sky, came...
This austere regime belongs to a 54-year-old American woman, one of the nuns in the Camaldolese Convent in the fashionable Aventine Hill section of Rome. Her name is Julia Crotta; to her sister nuns, who may now and then hear her cough or murmur but never see her, she is known as Sister Nazarena...
Poem to the Book Review at TIME: You will keep hiring picadors from the back row and pic the bull back far back along his spine you will slam sandbags to the kidneys and pass a wine poisoned on the vine you will saw the horns off and murmur the bulls are ah the bulls are not what once they were The corrida will end with Russians in the plaza Swine, some of you will say what did we wrong? And go forth to kiss the conquerors NORMAN MAILER New York City
...that it would not be for long. Last November, when nobody was looking, he shifted Bowles into a high-sounding but peripheral job as a presidential adviser, tossed in nearly a dozen other White House and State Department switches for good measure - and managed it all with hardly a murmur of complaint from anyone...
...Bird" Is Free (Charlie Parker; Charlie Parker Records). Saxophonist Parker was recorded at a concert dance in 1950, and despite the background murmur, he comes through warm and clear. His eloquent solos-particularly in This Time the Dream's on Me and in his own Moose the Mooche-have withered...