Word: mutter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...passerby yelled on her way into a taxi, "Students and faculty need housing too!" The University's interest, in this instance, is also that of the students. Harvard should not give into any hypocritical demands for altruism or false notions of socialistic equality. While Cantabrigians may mutter about fairness, we're not about to retreat to the original position...
Speaking for his team, Frantz could only mutter...
...mother was the eldest of her generation--of nine children--and came from a slightly more elevated social station in Jamaica. She had a high school education, which my father lacked. ("Him who never finished high school," she would mutter when Pop pulled rank on family matters.) Before emigrating, Mom had worked as a stenographer in a lawyer's office. She was a staunch union supporter, a member of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union. My father, the shipping-room foreman, considered himself part of management. Initially, they were both New Deal Democrats. We had that famous wartime photograph...
...enormous gap in wealth and power between whites and blacks. Whites still control most of the principal institutions of South African society: the corporations, the banks, the stock exchange, the media and the civil service. While Mandela has urged a color-blind society and railed against "reverse racism," whites mutter about blacks taking jobs they are not qualified for. Whether blacks have the right curriculum vitae does not really matter: affirmative action in some form is imperative and inevitable. In South Africa, unlike in America, disenfranchised blacks make up the great majority of the population, and it will be impossible...
...That sounds better,'' I mutter...