Word: mutter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...queen. But as the professor approached the mountains around Devil's Valley, a torrential rain poured from the skies. He waited 48 hours for the downpour to stop, then abandoned the mission. Tnbesmen, deciding that perhaps the old queen has what it takes after all were heard to mutter: "Mujaji has put up a ram curtain to stop the white man." The queen seemed safe once more-at least while it rained...
Orson Welles can never keep his left-tinted ideology clear of his work. this is no exception. Welles' Scots mutter dialectical materialism through their scraggly beards, and he has cluttered up Shakespeare's often excellent plot with a large amount of irrelevant detail. To top everything off, Welles has introduced a comic gravedigger and a moving forest. Stay clear of this one; it is at Boston's Copley Theatre...
Ringo meets these youths in every bar. They sneer at him, strut, and mutter that "he only has two hands, hasn't he." Then they very quickly draw and die. "Gunfighter" tells of Ringo's attempts to escape from these youths and from his own ability, and of the youth with an incipient moustache who is responsible for his final failure to escape...
...some drugs." His brother angrily refused to believe that Harry Gold could possibly have led a double life. But when they went to see him, Harry said: "I've done something that can't be rubbed off." Why had Harry Gold done it? He could only mutter a line which a thousand sinners had muttered before: "I must have been crazy...
...point after the start was the contest a race. Cornell apparently left whatever stuff it had to win the Carnegie Cup a week ago in the Housatonic, and rowed only adequately. The Crimson rowed beautifully. Passengers aboard the press launch could only mutter incredible" as they watched the Harvard shell, consistently under stroking the Big Red, move constantly ahead...