Word: mutter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While this is the most important proposal in Yale education in the past three decades, the Yale faculty is for the most part a strangely silent group. Few professors comment in writing either way: if interviewed, they hastily mutter generalizations rather than specific suggestions. The reason for this is the strange circumstance surrounding the report. Griswold was on the committee, he wrote part of it, and despite a heavy silence from the president's house, the report is to a large degree a test of Griswold's power. Although he steadfastly refuses to push the plans, although he withholds...
...Berlin flag and surmounted by his black beret. All one day and all that night, tens of thousands of Berliners filed past. Among them were many East Berliners, clutching their free food parcels. "He was our Reuter too," said one East zone woman. Her husband could only mutter: "What will...
...college weekly. The Maroon, this spirit is quite evident to visitors. The stranger to Colgate is dazed by the steady stream of "hellos" he receives from men who, as freshmen, greeted everyone under threat of a padding by Konosioni, the senior honor society. What started as a forced mutter from bewildered freshmen grows to a ready habit and finally becomes a matter of pride, until much genuine warmth is in every salutation...
Away from their grey skyscraper office on Manhattan's teeming 4?nd Street last week, the editors of a thriving monthly magazine got ready for a weekend of work without a mutter of complaint. One editor was off to Newport, R.I. to sail his 58-ft. yawl Caribbee in the 466-mile, 30-boat race to Annapolis, Md. The editor of the magazine headed for Norwalk, Conn., where he climbed aboard a launch and ran the weekly sailboat race of the Norwalk Yacht Club. Two of the magazine's ad staff were out on Long Island Sound racing...
...sharp, austere features of De Gasperi (cartoonists like to depict him as a wise, great-beaked black crow with lively eyes behind huge spectacles) remain glum even in moments of pleasure, and only his intense eyes glow. He has no notable administrative talent, and economists have been heard to mutter that he sometimes seems to be "an economic illiterate." He wears his imperfections humbly, like a suit of well-worn clothing, as if to suggest that attempting to discard them would be indecent...