Word: muttered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people who pound their fists and mutter aphorisms about smoke and fire ignore the breadth of Acheson's work. Between his becoming Undersecretary and now, the free world was forced to recognize one of the most unpalatable truths in recent times--the inescapable danger of modern Russia. As the Secretary of State, Acheson was the one primarily responsible for solving the vast problems that appeared during the transition from hope to reality. He had to determine the very premises of policy, as well as the policies themselves...
...witness after bitter witness testified against him, Provoo sat in court, writhing at the accusations. He was heard frequently to mutter curses under his breath-or possibly one of those wild Buddhist chants...
Conspiracy. Lenin, in a Czarist political prison, dreamed up the First Congress. Out of his cell, the little father of Soviet Russia smuggled a program for a new Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party. Only nine delegates managed to get past the police and mutter hurriedly for three days at Minsk in 1898. They just had time to draft a manifesto before the police caught up with them...
...sort of double-jointed and gave poor Soapy a bad time, I'm afraid. He would prop the book up in front of him and then get a horrible armlock on me. I would wiggle out of it, and Soapy would check the book again and mutter, 'I'm sure that is the right hold, Hank. Let's try it again...
...Roberts, whose marriage is breaking up. Meta announces that she is going to New York to visit her sister Trudy, but Meta's real reason for the trip is to see Dr. Bruce Banning. Trudy's husband Clyde, who has Meta pegged, is heard to mutter: "No matter where she is or whose life she touches, it means trouble...