Word: muttering
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...world crisis continued; but the first shock of U.S. realization had subsided. The U.S., remembering the danger signals before World War II, mulled over the deadly parallel. By last week, some cocktail-party pundits were beginning to mutter: "Why not drop the bomb on Russia...
...Paris, they tell the story of the man who fall off the Eiffel tower. As he passed the platform halfway down, an observer heard him mutter. "Well, I'm all right so far." So it is with skijumping, anybody can still sail through the air; it's when you hit the ground that you have to start worrying...
...time has come to stop looking and listen. Clan wars are futile, says the hero sand because his bonny one belongs to the other clan, the time has come to make up. Ellen Drew, the bonny one, flashes her eyes at him and aggravates her clansmen. They start to mutter and a wind comes...
When a gale blows up and the course is soggy with rain, the grim men who play big-time golf are apt to mutter: "It's a Demaret day." Like a mud-running race horse, Jimmy Demaret (pronounced demerit) always seems to do his best when conditions are worst...
...yard where he had once killed a Negro). Danny waited for "Grandpa" to back out his battered 1941 Ford coupe. Ivins touched the starter button. An explosion ripped the car apart. Danny, bowled over by the blast, was not seriously hurt. Burkett Ivins lived long enough to mutter: "I'm done in for good-but to think they would do that to my Danny." Beside him was his .45 Colt automatic...