Word: whisperingly
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...rushed up to whisper into Lodge's ear. "Thanks," he said, "for not mentioning the Trojan horse...
...tossed out the possibility that a crisis growing out of the Paris summit conference might change the whole picture.Such a time of national peril, they suggested, could make the Democratic Convention reject Kennedy as too young and too inexperienced to cope with Nikita Khrushchev. A better crisis candidate, the whisper went, might be Johnson, the cool, bipartisan helmsman, or Symington, the military expert, or Stevenson, the internationalist. It all had the sound, though, of whistling in the growing dark...
Saskatchewan spends 34% of its budget ($148 million this year, 10% from oil and natural-gas royalties) on welfare. But the CCF's early-days loud talk of "eradicating capitalism" is not even a whisper now. Saskatchewan's Deputy Minister of Travel and Information now makes a dozen trips yearly to Eastern Canada and the U.S. luring new industry to the province, hoping that the profits of free enterprise will make possible an economy that can afford Tommy Douglas' social welfare...
...great defense debate that blasted off in the wake of Sputnik I, the honest fears of a dangerous U.S. "missile gap" that flared in the repeated failures of U.S. rocketry - all the long, loud argument seemed like a fading whisper last week as shot after shot sent U.S. missiles successfully down their test ranges, and headed satellites toward space...
...sounds as weird as anything in the world of electronic music. The first movement in last week's performance built to a climax with express-train power. The quieter second movement gained its effect from the almost somnolent alternation of the piano's sinuous theme with the whisper of a drum, the rasp of a snare, the tinkle of a triangle; the wildly fragmented third movement erupted in brief, craggy patterns stitched together only by the surgical precision of Reiner's conducting...