Word: muttered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...male-dominated institutions are exceedingly timid about revolution. Perhaps, however, Hochschild's prickly, irritating, distressingly reasonable book can help us to see the next step. The call used to be for soft-center males, studs who could cry. That was silly. Men don't cry. They brood, and mutter, and sulk, sometimes for hours on end, while on TV the Red Sox are slowly dying. That's fine, the author is saying, but not while there are children to be bathed, dinner to be zapped, vacuuming to be postponed. Her bleak message, alas, is that taking out the garbage...
...anti-terrorism plan," he added. "The terrorists get so fed up with the delays that they mutter, 'Not even Allah is worth this nonsense,' and leave the airport...
...Soviets probably still think they invented baseball, or lapta, an innocent steppes-child that supposedly predates both British rounders and Tommy John. But the bench jockeying has quieted considerably since the Reds dropped an April game to the U.S. Naval Academy, 21-1, and their coach was heard to mutter, "Throw to second, not first. Second is the one in the middle...
...pause. I think for a minute and mutter, "Go, Hoyas...
...mutter something like, "I'm sure the Trans America Athletic Conference is a couple of years away from putting a team in the Final Four," but your confidence is ebbing...