Word: murmurous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems, at first glance, to be a conventional cocktail lounge. There are soft lights, a polished mahogany bar and the murmur of drinkers' voices rising above unobtrusive music. But there is more to the scene than meets the eye. The drinks are free, a TV camera is videotaping the activities and electronic equipment under the bar is administering shocks to the patrons, most of whom are alcoholic patients at Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino, Calif., where the lounge has been installed...
...Hollywood High, the outsized and unsightly girl known as "Barge" would sneak off to the girls' room and stare at herself in the mirror. She pressed her nose against the glass so she could look into her eyes without seeing the rest of her face. And she would murmur over and over again: "Some day you'll be beautiful. Some day you'll be beautiful...
...that strains to catch the Workers' every murmur, it is gratifying to hear them sing out boldly in the operas of Marc Blitzstein (1905-1964). His life-long concern over social conditions in the United States finds vigorous and artistic, yet undogmatic, expression in his music...
Libya is already subsidizing Egypt out of oil incomes at a rate of $55 million annually, and Cairo is hungry for more. Libyans have been heard to murmur, moreover, that the Egyptian technicians sent to Tripoli last year are "just foreignersas bad as the Italians, the British or the Americans." In view of such feelings, the will-o'-the-wisp of Arab unity may prove as elusive as ever...
Yesterday's spectators, most of them young and black, numbered about 25. They were searched as they entered the courtroom, and they remained generally quiet during the proceedings. At one point, Seale raised his hand to quiet a murmur which arose in the audience in response to a statement by one member of the jury panel...