Word: whisperer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Blitzing New Jersey, New Hampshire and New York last week in an assault on G.O.P. Eastern strongholds, Estes Kefauver ignored noisy Eisenhower enthusiasts among his street-corner crowds and an Oklahoma-born cold that reduced his drawling dramatics to a-hoarse whisper. But the vice-presidential nominee and aides were hard put to ignore what they considered a pointed dig: the absence of New York Democratic bigwigs from the Syracuse-Rochester-Buffalo area when Kefauver made a one-day stand in upper New York state...
...American consensus" and the "reign of moderation," the Democratic immoderates charged full tilt into the nominating arena and set up a clangor that all but drowned out the normal sounds of the nation. The planning for next week's Republican Convention seemed to fall off to a whisper. And even the extraordinary White House meeting of the President, the Secretary of State and congressional leaders on the Suez crisis (see Foreign Relations) took on some aspects of a sideshow because the top Democrats sandwiched it in between their caucuses in the Windy City...
After successive crashes, this final appeal changes to "Shoot the juice to me, Bruce," "Pass the claret to me, Barrett," "Put a gallon in me, Allen," and finally, in a weak whisper, "Hey Daddy-O, Make that Type O." Shocked by all the claret, NBC and ABC banned the song, but Transfusion sold half a million records in two weeks, is now inching toward the million mark. As Nervous Norvus ("I invented Nervous; I'm the cat that invented that"), Drake found himself famous. He has since produced another hit called Ape Call. "The pterodactyl was a flyin...
...game in the World Series. And almost singlehanded he had kept the Ashes, symbol of international cricket supremacy, in England. ¶ On Utah's glaring, glass-smooth salt flats, Germany's Wilhelm Herz wasted one lap when timing equipment failed, still got the last whisper of speed out of his streamlined NSU motorcycle. His 500 cc. engine churning up to 8,000 r.p.m., Herz whooshed back and forth on the measured mile at an average 210 m.p.h., the first time any cyclist had passed the magic 200-m.p.h. mark...
Composer Persichetti suggests a poem by e. e. cummings as a Christmas hymn. First verse: purer than purest ptire whisper of whisper so, so (big with innocence) forgivingly a once of eager glory, no more miracle may grow...