Word: mutteringly
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...porticoed town hall, Peter Harmon asserts that he has a knack not only for finding water but also for stranger things, like out-of-the-body trips. "I've been to the moon," he announces with utter solemnity. Then, before a skeptical visitor can mutter "Really?" Harmon explains that he once encountered a moon-walking NASA astronaut at a meeting. "The fellow said to me, 'My gosh, didn't I meet you somewhere before?' " Harmon chuckles. But the apostle of science, shaking his head, does not laugh. Because Harmon clearly believes his own story...
...half-way point the outcome of the meet was no longer in question. The Crimson runners were sitting pretty and everyone knew it. Northeastern's graduated Flora twins, who watched this contest from the sidelines, could only shake their heads and mutter obscenities. The Huskies needed more than their moral support to pull out this...
...selfish cowardice, intimidating him, wounding him with a pistol shot, and then molesting and threatening to rape his wife. Richard cannot bring himself to do anything but fume. When Clarisse finally explodes in rage at Teddy after his rape threat and demands that Richard stop him, Richard can only mutter that he might do something if she were raped. Their bond is shattered by the end of the play, as Clarisse makes it clear that she will be free of Richard's now groundless domination...
...Next comes Hendricks, Winthrop's pitcher, so he probably can't hit worth a damn anyway. Dudley's hurler winds up and whips one high and outside, and I hear Hendricks mutter, 'Hey, what's going on here...
...Ditto for pitch number three, and as Hendricks trots to first, the recipient of the first intentional walk in Harvard softball history, I hear him mutter under his breath, 'Now that wasn't very nice...