Word: mutterings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think you hear "the mutter of the bears" [TIME, June 10]. We'd like to be heard, all right, but I didn't know anyone was listening. I'm a mama bear myself and there are thousands like me. I have never bought anything from the black market, and I should object to being compelled to do so if excessive prices are legalized by the removal of OPA regulations. It will still smell like a black market to me, and I shall refuse to buy anything except bear necessities. . . , Unfortunately, a buyers' strike cannot provide...
...week when two great strikes were settled, an uneasy thought beset U.S. businessmen. Under the bullish rumble could be heard a bearish mutter. Deflation might not be too far away...
...undependable a brood of gifted musicians as James Petrillo has in his roster. Eddie got them together first at Town Hall jazz concerts. They seemed willing to follow him-even when they couldn't follow everything he said in his elliptical, corner-of-the-mouth mutter. Boasts Eddie: "There's not a blood relative in the band. . . . No red beards. The boys can dress as they please as long as they have shoes...
Miss Suckley glanced his way. He had suddenly slumped sideways in his chair and, alarmed, she ran across the room to him. She heard him mutter: "I have a terrific headache." The women stood aghast at what they saw. The President fainted...
Promptly a Canadian Naval officer rushed to the U.S. commander to apologize. Furiously, the Navy Minister at Ottawa, Angus Macdonald, ordered his Pacific Command to get to the bottom of the trouble. A board of inquiry sailed into the case at top speed, pausing only long enough to mutter that the first reports were "greatly exaggerated...