Word: muttered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dothan was not deterred. To help locate promising sites, she hired as her foreman a Bedouin named Hamad who had been doing some freelance digging on his own. As he walked over the dunes, he would hold a long screwdriver before him like a divining rod and mutter in Arabic, "Yom assal, yom bassal [One day it is honey, one day it is onions...
...Paris. When people at work ask where I live, I say "the 7th instead of "Rue St. Paul." I stand up in the metro at all times. and when I want to get off I push people and mutter "pardon" and act annoyed. I have learned to say "merct" when in doubt. My maitre d'hotel understands that I do not eat breakfast...
...Before, Lavery was an elegant dancer and a dutiful partner. Working with Darci has made him an ardent and vigilant one. He talks to her as they perform. If he finds signs of developing nerves like a stiffening body or a tendency to move off the beat, he will mutter, "It's O.K." or "Better hurry up." Says Lavery: "I am struck by the way she can cover space and by her nonstop energy. She doesn't know when to rest...
...stared out the window into infinite space. I thought of my parents and wondered if I should abandon the theatre and return to rabbinical school. Through the half-open door I saw Connie and also Emily, both laughing and chatting with guests, and all I could mutter to myself as I remained a limp, hunched figure was an age-old line of my grandfather's which goes...
...Harvard, a place where men and women with great minds are free to train other men and women with potentially great minds. And when your professor in a class of 200 calls out your name and asks if you really understand what's going on, and you nod and mutter something inconsequential, you'll know why you stayed up the night before to write his paper...