Word: muttered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first long, close look at the Senator by accompanying him to London, the Middle East and Moscow. Austin has also talked politics with Muskie from Thomas Point, Me., to Capitol Hill. The only heavy objects hitting Austin during this period were the puns that Muskie likes to mutter to those at his elbow (looking at a stone sarcophagus in Egypt, the Senator observed: "These Egyptians sure didn't take the afterlife for granite...
Instinct. Some Democrats mutter, however, that Lindsay is the only politician who can make points out of chaos. He is the acknowledged leader of the nation's mayors in their fight for greater federal revenues to rescue the decaying cities. Lindsay says he plans to refute critics now by demonstrating that he can indeed govern New York City; he means also to use its problems as proof of a larger national crisis instead of evidence of his own incompetence...
...contribute little to the smoother workings of Government. To Egghead Kissinger, they are a technological mystery. He will not call on the device, but does take calls, with a bit of fuming and fussing as he tries to work the thing. "Technology gone mad," he has been heard to mutter. One day when a picturephone call came in, Ehrlichman's large, balding head materialized on Kissinger's screen and his deep voice intoned: "Push the center button, Henry...
...they near their goal-Gabriola, an island on Canada's West Coast -they have been transformed into a pair of unearthly representatives of a pagan diaspora. And not too subtly. The fire and water that drove them from their previous homes are invested with stage magic. Old men mutter about the qualities of wood as if spirits lived in the grain. Llewelyn feels foreshadowings in everything from snatches of movie dialogue to highway billboards. Symbols wash up out of the sea and appear...
...compete in the U.S. Open because of a knee operation, the only question was how fast Mighty Maggie would finish off the field. Nancy Richey lasted only 27 minutes in the semifinals, while Rosemary Casals managed to endure for 56 minutes in the finals. Afterward, Rosemary could only mutter, "Her long arms, they seemed to go all round the court." According to London's Human Biomechanics Laboratory, which recently tested Margaret, her arms are indeed a good 3 in. to 4 in. longer than those of the average woman tested...