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Word: muttered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...death on the people-always, said the elders, because God had been displeased by younger Camiguenos who grew lax in their churchgoing, forgetful of the feast days and neglectful of the sign of the cross. When his children did wrong, an elder would glance fearfully toward the horizon and mutter, "The volcano will get angry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Tragedy at Hibok-Hibok | 12/17/1951 | See Source »

...good and deep, all right," one of the trio commented after the showing. A second, apparently puzzled by the film's symbolic intricacies, could only mutter that "the actors were pretty good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Detectives See Dream Movie As Minor Menace, but Moral | 11/3/1951 | See Source »

Gromyko and the Czech and Polish delegations stayed away from the signing. Just before the ceremony, Gromyko held a press conference in which he repeated his familiar tune. After half an hour, newsmen began to walk out on him in disgust. Gromyko was heard to mutter: "There is nothing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONFERENCES: Russian Rout | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...taxpayers will be grateful for such economy; if the planners are wrong, the U.S. will be disastrously half-ready. It is a massive gamble, which only a few men like Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch boldly criticize: he, almost alone, would go all-out on production now; the rest mutter and have misgivings, but go along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOBILIZATION: Half Speed Ahead | 7/16/1951 | See Source »

...show with the soldiers when Matthew walked in, a four-day pass in his pocket. With a reserve that bettered even the best British tradition, he sat down beside his wife and watched the show with her. "Everybody was in stitches, of course," related Benita. "I heard one man mutter: 'Damned idiot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN AT WAR: A Family Matter | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

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