Word: whispers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before Christmas, the vote on German rearmament was announced: "Rejected by 259 for, 280 against." Mendes, sitting with his hands clutching one knee, barely moved. The Communists clapped. The rest of the Assembly sat in stunned silence. From the back benches came an audible whisper: "Perhaps that was going too far." Coldly and scornfully, Mendes told the Assembly: "You have just emitted a vote which is bad for the country." To repair what damage he could, he demanded immediate votes on other Paris agreements...
...laid a curse on you, Ilya? What have you done? You are kind, intelligent, tender, honorable, and-you are going to wrack and ruin! What has ruined you? There is no name for that evil.' " 'Yes, there is,' he said in a hardly audible whisper...
...Born into a cultivated music-teacher's family near Bern, Switzerland, Klee thought of making music his profession. He chose painting instead, simply "because it seemed to be lagging behind," and undertook rigorous formal training. Klee's chief means of advancing art was to let his unconscious whisper through his brush. At four, he would rush to his mother for protection from the "evil spirits" that appeared on his drawing paper. With age, he came to feel at home in his dream world of huge, dim forces, and was able to say, with none of the smugness...
Last week, as Superintendent Surana was discussing his many problems with Rajasthan's chief provincial minister, a cop interrupted their talk to whisper an urgent message in his ear. Hastily excusing himself, Surana raced with his cops to the nearby village of Lahardi, arriving just in time to halt another and even grislier religious ritual. Instead of attending a government-sponsored rally in honor of the dignity of manual labor, as they were supposed to, the peasants of Lahardi had flocked en masse to a hillock to watch a holy man being buried alive...
...correct you so that you may lead a more worthy proletarian life. You learn to dress shabbily in drab colors, like the others, and to put your children to work. If you do not, your taxes are raised. You learn to be enthusiastic. If you are not, they will whisper from mouth to mouth in your village that you want to be rich, that you are a reactionary. They will threaten you with public discussion. They will isolate you: you will find that your neighbors will not dare speak to you. If this does not teach you joy, they will...