Word: muttering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, not every kind of woman. "It's the year of the feminist woman," antifeminist Phyllis Schlafly observes tartly. Or at least of the liberal Democratic woman, which is why George Bush was heard to mutter, during the second debate, "I hope a lot of them lose." Of the 11 women who ran for the Senate, 10 were Democrats, as were 70 of the 106 candidates for Congress...
...death with a car jack. It becomes clear to his parents (who knew nothing about the girlfriend) and younger sister that he is probably guilty, though when he is caught after several days, he refuses to say a word. The lawyer they hire isn't encouraging. Local peasants mutter and look sullen...
...dignify Ice-T's contribution with the word sedition. The past masters of sedition -- men like George Washington, Toussaint-Louverture, Fidel Castro or Mao Zedong, all of whom led and won armed insurrections -- would be unimpressed by Cop Killer and probably saddened. They would shake their heads and mutter words like "infantile" and "adventurism." They might point out that the cops are hardly a noble target, being, for the most part, honest working stiffs who've got stuck with the job of patrolling ghettos ravaged by economic decline and official neglect...
...meager offerings, then left with mostly empty plastic bags. There were potatoes the day before, but they sold out in less than five minutes. On Thursday huge cans of cucumbers were available for about half the average monthly wage. Bottles of beer and slivovitz -- hoarded or, as many mutter angrily, stolen -- are available at outrageous prices. Puzic bought toothpaste, soap and a bundle of broad coltsfoot leaves. "I've never eaten it before," she sighed with a dubious glance at the tough, shiny weeds normally used for treating asthma. "But what else is there?" In Sarajevo outright starvation...
...most upsetting call came three years ago. Lowerison returned from work to find a message on her telephone answering machine. After almost a minute of noise that might have been traffic or from an airport, a man was heard to mutter what sounds like the words "Help, Barbara" in the tone of someone perhaps drugged or in pain. To an outsider, the tape could easily seem like a cruel hoax. To Lowerison, it is a tormenting sign that her brother might be alive...