Word: mutterings
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...literally addresses the ball. "Come on, little ball," he will mutter. "Now git up there on the green like ah say." Snead lacks Hogan's machine-tool precision, but he is as durable as Sarazen, as handy with the irons as Byron Nelson, and he outdrives Bobby Jones in his prime by a full 20 yards. Like Babe Ruth (to whom his fans often compare him) and the little girl with the curl, Snead is sensationally good when he is good-and when he is bad he is horrid. He is never dull. He plays a gamboling, gambling game...
...itself. The surrender to the West of an MVD agent, Yuri Rastvorov, in Japan last January, the defection of Khokhlov in West Germany and of the Petrovs in Australia, are the known cases; official Washington sources hint that there are others. Try as it may, Communist propaganda cannot mutter a simple "good riddance" at the defections of such people. They know too much. Evdokia Petrov was not just a spy's wife. As an expert code clerk in her husband's espionage apparatus in Australia's Russian embassy, she knew secrets...
...another grand Crimson Key Weekend fades happily into the past, a silent vote of thanks arises for Harvard's social organizers. Understandably, there is also quite an audible mutter of discontent from those who like their good times retail, not wholesale. The much ballyhooed Artist's Ball Saturday night, and the corresponding eight-thirty parietal show all the signs of directed...
...British press these days tends to scold and mutter at U.S. policies, attitudes and personalities. One morning this week, the highly respected London Times struck a different note: Said the Times...
...when most scholars are remembering their earlier inspirations with a tepid chagrin, Miss Cam can wax enthusiastic about a book she read yesterday or a Maitland she read three decades ago. One student in her seminar on medieval documents, dizzied by her rabid interest, could only mutter; "She gets so damn excited over some dusty records...