Word: mutterings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From the tops of their heads Did they mutter and spout, And erudite words Came tumbling...
...mental patient on day release from a Manhattan psychiatric institution. He wanted to be readmitted because the food was better there than at home, and resorted to violence to get attention. Especially in winter, platoons of tramps drift in from the neighborhood to sleep at the tables or mutter away at readers. Periodically the library staff wakens them, with a touching politeness, and asks them to leave-or come back only after taking a bath...
...ground, the crowd became a herd of red-and-blue, thousands of Sox fans closing in on that small stadium. Immediately I was accosted by a vendor peddling Red Sox painter's caps. This was my big chance, the opportunity to finally live out my Yankee allegiance. Would I mutter some slur under my breath, or would I bite the bullet and merely say I was a New Yorker, preferring to wear pinstripes? Of course, I did neither. What would later turn out to be the story of the day had begun. I sheepishly said, "No thanks," and continued towards...
Here and there one can hear the experts mutter that maybe by 1990 we can have mass production of clean, comfortable, safe cars that average 50 or even 75 miles to the gallon. History is working for Adams' challenge. Enough people around Detroit remember Henry the First's caustic reminiscence in the 1920s. Said Ford: "All the wise people demonstrated conclusively that the new gas engine could not compete with steam...
Some Harvard administrators call it the Kennedy School Library. Some say the Engelhard Library. Others just mutter, "That damned library...