Word: whisperingly
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...over the outskirts of Le Havre. It was 9 a.m. when we broke the sound barrier-Mach 1. Up there it comes with a whimper, not a bang. I had to be told that we had passed Mach 1 cruising at 30,000 feet; we felt only a slight whisper of movement, hardly a shudder, as the plane continued to climb...
Muskie feels there is always a television lens in front of him, and it is the wellspring of all power and he must put on his stovepipe hat. They whisper around the Capitol corridors that if Muskie had the hardness in him right now, he could seize the thing before next year. His staff is big and growing, and Muskie is moving more and talking out, but sometimes he seems lost in details, as if his own cluttered and compassionate mind will not let him cut through to the fundamentals of running for and winning the nomination...
...seems as if half the country would like to be dancing cheek to cheek with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in a great ballroom of the '30s. The other half yearns to join Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman on a back-lot Casablanca of the '40s to whisper: "Play it, Sam. Play As Time Goes By." We seem to be not so much entering the new decade as backing away from it full steam astern...
...than Rod Steiger in his oppressive, self-congratulatory Napoleon. Scene after marching scene, every familiar Steigerian trick passes in review: the pop eyes, the mouth like a gunny sack with the strings drawn, and below all, the voice that CLIMBS TO A BELLOW AND THEN falls to a portentous whisper...
...John L. walked the streets of Southie wearing his diamondstudded belt and raved that there were "enough Sullivans to make an army big enough to capture Canada from the British and make it Irish like it oughta be," even the most aloof of the Gold Coast Irish had to whisper "right...