Word: mutterings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...leftists have gotten the red-carpet treatment in Peking. One of them is Francisco Juliāo, powerful leader of the Red-tinged Peasant Leagues, which battens on the misery of the rural millions in poverty-stricken northeast Brazil. After a Juliāo speech, the peasant poor now mutter grimly about land reform and sing, "What harm is there in a ship/Carrying our common Brazilian coffee/And selling it to a China/Where there is no Chiang Kai-shek...
...about 125 U.S. and Canadian businessmen (mostly associates of Eaton's) and a flock of Tass reporters. Though Khrush got a chance to sing his Communist theme, most of the guests deliberately passed up his offer to answer questions from the floor; one disgruntled guest was heard to mutter during K.'s speech: "Oh, sit down, you s.o.b...
...Protestant monks! To wipe out completely the small step forward taken by the Reformation, the only thing left to do will be to give them strings beads and have them mutter meaningless prayers...
...reprisal, the unions declared him "untouchable"; any machinery he handled was "unclean." Men mutter curses as he passes, get up from the lunch table when he sits down. The management has shifted him to an isolated area, where he works on small, 30-lb. furnace doors that he can handle alone. And there he stays eight hours a day in bitter silence, finding relief only when he goes home at night to his wife and five children. Says he grimly: "I can stick it out as long as they...
...circumstances, real planning (and saving) for college is essential. Gone are the days when an Ivy League dean could mutter: "If the check is good and the body is warm, he's in." By a process that Yale's President A. Whitney Griswold calls "Calvinistic," today's aspiring freshman is weighed and tested for academic content, percentiled for promise by electronic gadgets, and harried by word that average admission standards will soon rise by one full year. Much worse, his cost for four years at a residential college may soon double to the price of a couple...