Word: whisperingly
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...that paperweight." However, added Rene, "we do no more than the wives of helicopter crews in Viet Nam or the women the Thresher left behind. They risked just as much and lost a great deal more. Don't feel sorry for us. It's great to whisper at liftoff, 'Don't look back-we're with...
...kept calling, "Make me hear you. Don't shout; but make me hear you." Ten years later, as Richard would all but whisper, "O! what a rogue and peasant slave am I," every princely syllable went special-delivery to the outermost rafters...
...paucity of facts in Moscow lends a certain credibility to every rumor about the Kremlin, especially when it concerns the supposed ups and downs of Nikita Khrushchev.* Thus it was last week that a whisper from Moscow via Rome became a blast of hot air felt around the world...
...Barren Room. A young man of great energy, some talent, and no humility, Mann is currently the most active screenwriter in Hollywood. Since he won an Oscar last year for Judgment at Nuremberg, every Hollywood producer has been trying to sign him to write a script, and lucky actors whisper importantly to their friends that they have been cast "to do an Abby Mann." Later they whisper to Mann himself, saying what a great writer you are, darling. When a writer steps into that sort of atmosphere and is incautious enough to believe what the flatterers tell...
...loyal fans of Soprano Renata Tebaldi had a hard time in recent years detecting the girlish silhouette of Mimi, say, or Leonora beneath their favorite's puffed-up form. Unlike her archrival Callas. who had the theatrical canniness to diet to a sleek whisper of her former self, Tebaldi apparently felt that it was sufficient for a soprano simply to trundle on stage and sing...