Word: muttering
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...Pacific Coast Conference's sixth consecutive Rose Bowl drubbing has led a few West Coast coaches to mutter against bowl games in general, joining the investigating group of college presidents who have already put bowls high on their "evil" list. The president's group, under the American Council of Education, the Dun and Bradstreet of the academic world, will try to force de-emphasis by lowering the academic rating of schools that engage in recruiting practices and in exhibition games...
...Middle East. Until the West did develop that moral muscle, it had no chance with the millions represented by Mossadegh. In Iran, in Egypt, in a dozen other countries, when people asked: "Who are you? What are you doing here?" the West's only answer was an unintelligible mutter. Charles Malik, Lebanon's great delegate to the U.N., put it tersely: "Do you know why there are problems in the Near East? Because the West is not sure of itself." The East would be in turmoil until the West achieved enough moral clarity to construct a just...
Ordinarily this would lead the average student to throw up his hands in despair, mutter a "what's the use," and trundle home this week-end, empty-handed and shame-faced growling something about "studying too hard to buy Christmas presents. Send them to you when I get back...
...death on the people-always, said the elders, because God had been displeased by younger Camiguenos who grew lax in their churchgoing, forgetful of the feast days and neglectful of the sign of the cross. When his children did wrong, an elder would glance fearfully toward the horizon and mutter, "The volcano will get angry...
...good and deep, all right," one of the trio commented after the showing. A second, apparently puzzled by the film's symbolic intricacies, could only mutter that "the actors were pretty good...