Word: muttering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mutter Museum was closed on Halloween. But in many ways, it is Halloween at the Mutter every day. The first-time visitor is confronted by macabre marvels: monstrously misshapen skulls and skeletons, fetal remains of offspring that could never be human, shadowy effigies of things that went bump in the night. The Mutter's polished wood, gleaming brass rails and dark oil paintings suggest the library of a wealthy if eccentric 19th century aristocrat. But when professor Thomas Dent Mutter bequeathed his collection to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia in 1856, he intended it as a teaching...
...that the game has with its die-hard fans. Baseball, more than any other sport, depends on a complete 162-game season to maintain the continuity of its records. Not since the 1930s had baseball witnessed such a fan-friendly display of power hitting as this season. Conspiracy theorists mutter darkly about a livelier ball, while other analysts point to depleted pitching staffs and new homer-haven ball parks. Baseball's most hallowed record, Roger Maris' 61 homers in 1961, was in danger of being eclipsed. Five marquee-idol sluggers (Matt Williams, Ken Griffey, Frank Thomas, Barry Bonds and Albert...
This doesn't means that you won't have a blast at the movie. It just means that occasionally you'll mutter to yourself "this is a bit much" rather than dismissing it all as a spoof...
Potential tantrum defused. Gilbert went quietly to his demise thereafter, although he did drop-kick his racket into the net after the final point and mutter a few Gallic epithets. But Gangji, 41, one of the top professional umpires in tennis, chose to ignore this final frisson of petulance...
...some reason, America is obsessed with stories of the outre. Consumers of the news media have developed a "Beavis and Butthead" mentality. They watch from their living room sofas as the world marches by on their television screens. They love to ridicule the things they see and mutter asinine commentary to one another. (Hunh hunh....Tonya Harding sucks....hunh hunh hunh....He said penis....hunh hunh hunh...