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Word: whisperingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...many singles, a noisy bar is the perfect setting for the rituals of courtship. But for others, loud voices, pounding music and noisy cell phones make the sweet nothings too hard to hear. Enter the Quiet Party, where all talking above a gentle whisper is banned, cell phones are forbidden and the jukebox is muted. Participants chat mostly via notes; some are suggestive, others discuss current events, while still others seek creative potential mates by starting chain stories. The first Quiet Party took place in New York City last November, and now the idea is spreading nationwide. The first international...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shhh! We're Having a Party | 4/21/2003 | See Source »

...with official Junior Miss logos on their cars, sponsor families and hospitality mothers at our beck and call. Have a craving for an Oreo mid-rehearsal? The hospitality moms were more than happy to drive out to the store. Little girls asked for autographs, earnestly leaning in close to whisper that they hoped they would be a Junior Miss someday. Wherever we went, the Mobile press followed. Every morning I read articles about us over breakfast, and every night I watched footage of our rehearsals and appearances on the news. Then there was all the free new clothes?...

Author: By Kristi L. Jobson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Maryland's Junior Miss(fit) Waves Goodbye | 4/3/2003 | See Source »

Want to start a rumor? Tap the guy next to you on the shoulder during warm-ups and whisper something about No. 21. It’ll go around the rink and come back to you in an hour...

Author: By Jon PAUL Morosi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: STRIKING TWICE | 3/20/2003 | See Source »

...funny Chinese language with all those bloody lines and scratches." At least, he hears, the beer is supposed to be tasty?something that matters now that Gazza is back off the wagon. "Look, it doesn't matter where I am," says Gascoigne, his voice barely above a whisper, "as long as I get to play me football. That's what makes me happy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Washed Up? | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

...Zaki, 45, is not a jihadi, at least not in the sense that word has come to be understood in the West since 9/11. A small, frail man with soft eyes and a courtly demeanor, his voice is not much louder than a whisper. He has too much old-world refinement to join a screaming mob and burn an American flag. Nor would he dream of strapping a bomb to his stomach and blowing himself up in a shopping mall. Still, he sees the U.S. as a force of great evil that, along with Israel, is hell-bent on destroying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Waiting to Kill Americans | 3/3/2003 | See Source »

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