Word: muttering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special place among sports, not only as forming part of the English tradition, but as a common interest helping to bind together . . . the Commonwealth." Tory benchers broke into roars of approval. But from a few Laborite followers of soccer, which Britons consider their national sport, came a glum mutter: "Class favoritism!" ¶ Added: tax deductions, based on the cost of new plants and equipment (to encourage new investment). ¶ Soon to go: the excess-profits tax (30%), which will end next Jan. 1, leaving British industries and businesses with about $280 million more of their profits than they...
...usual, the guilty refuse to accept the blame. Do the good citizens sign and say, "Ah, well, we didn't support the team and new it's gone?" Perish to thought! Rather, they mutter about betrayal and curse Lou Perini for a hypocrite who pretended to be civic minded but cared only for the folding green...
...Eisenhower for ten minutes. Then he bustled over to the State Department and signed the now standard Mutual Military Assistance Agreement* with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, in a ceremony which lasted 3½ minutes. ("Well, that's all there is to it," Dulles was heard to mutter as he put down his pen and stood...
...thanks, he started back again. On the second trip he rescued seven. The third time he was gone for more than an hour, and when he finally returned with nine more, he was moving very slowly. "Help me. My legs . . . Help me," the people on dry land heard him mutter. His exposure suit was badly ripped when they dragged him out. Another five minutes in the icy water might well have proved fatal, said a doctor. But Reis Leming was not bothered. Next day, once again he was back helping the rescuers. One fact made the job more difficult: Reis...
...harder time explaining their position. Southern Methodist's Rusty Russell, who bosses a 150-man squad, sputtered: "I don't like it . . . Who's going to keep books on the players?" Wisconsin's Ivy Williamson, whose team lost in the Rose Bowl, could only mutter that "football won't be the same without the two-platoon system. It made for a better game." Said Ohio State's Woody Hayes, whose goman squad gets its practice for only an hour and 20 minutes daily: "We simply cannot train a boy to play offense and defense...