Word: whisperingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...just two years. She giggles shyly when asked to cite examples of Afghanistan's heritage. "We invented the burka, I think," she says, after much thought. Just then, the male principal peers into her classroom. She adjusts her veil modestly. "But, I tell you," she adds, in a whisper, "I don't think the burka was a very great invention...
...Whining about not going out though 21—29 percent: (monologue given in a hushed whisper in Lamont) “Yeah, this school is so stupid because it limits the innate drives of fun-loving young adults who it can then force to study and care about grades and compete and stuff. I’m so sick of not being able to party on the weekends and stuff. Yeah, this sucks...
...provides a prime example. By framing his otherwise provocative vision of Harvard as a “global University” immediately after introducing it as the “Torch of Truth,” Summers takes something away from his message. Should our professors “whisper in the ear of a President,” if they so choose? Absolutely. Should they continue “establishing legal foundations for civil society in distant lands?” No question. Harvard professors are the leading intellectuals of our day, and as such they should use that...
...permits no photographs and rarely appears in public. He is said to be 5 ft. 10 in. tall, heavily bearded and imposing despite his stitched-shut eye. He is thought to confer personally with perhaps eight or 10 men whom he has known and trusted for years. His whisper-soft voice wields absolute authority. Yet when a Pakistani delegation arrived for an audience several weeks ago, Omar greeted its members simply, outside, seated on the gravel...
...Couples are Edith and Woodrow Wilson. Edith Bolling Galt was a widow when she married Wilson in what was judged to be unseemly haste since his first wife had died little more than a year earlier. Galt was handsome, fearless, possessive and responsive to Wilson's fevered sexual impulses. Whisper of the times: "What did Mrs. Galt do when the President asked her to marry him? She fell out of bed." Their marriage was "the greatest love story of the modern presidency," Marton writes, her opinion bolstered by the collection of 250 eloquent, if sometimes syrupy, love letters from which...