Word: whisperer
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...differ. Irvin S. Cobb compared a swig to swallowing a lighted kerosene lamp. A North Carolina moonshiner says simply: "Hits a blamed ugly drink." And then there is Colonel Leland DeVore, whose throat involuntarily contracts whenever he thinks of moonshine: "I hear, as if from far away, the gagging whisper of a long-lost friend whose favorite saying was 'Vile stuff-I wish I had a barrel...
...track consistency: Ulster, he believes, faces a takeover by the Catholic-dominated Republic of Ireland and this can be prevented only if Ulster's Protestants band together in political and military opposition to union. A soft-spoken lawyer whose voice seldom rises above a whisper, Craig last week talked with TIME Correspondent William McWhirter in his suburban Belfast home, which is still scarred by a recent terrorist bomb attack. The views of King Billy...
...says a friend, but "he just doesn't have days or nights, and he's seldom thinking more than ten minutes ahead." Scheduled to meet a photographer, he may march off to the recording studio or back to his apartment on Manhattan's East Side to whisper musical phrases into his "notebook," a portable cassette recorder...
...Correspondents Murray Gart. Their meeting took place over tea in his enormous second-floor office, a cruciform chamber in green and silver, in the Niavaran Palace, the royal residence in Teheran. The highly active 54-year-old monarch sighed frequently as he talked, his voice sometimes dropping to a whisper, as though betraying the burden he feels as the absolute ruler of Iran's 34 million people. For more than a decade he has concentrated on using his country's vast oil riches to turn Iran into a modern state. With arms purchased primarily from...
...been developed as self-protection, not self-expression, as a shield against her naturally unbounded generosity, a self-destructive and explosive emotion which often vented itself in endless hours of duck-like squawking. But the best she can do, speaking from the wrong side of the heavenly gates, is whisper her confession into another actor's dreams, unnecessarily burdening him and remaining unfulfilled herself...