Word: whispers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whisper of childhood, as we touch cheeks...
...gibes of high-born courtiers from the day she was installed in the palace in 1745 until the day she died there-after dutifully getting the King's permission to do so-in 1764. At first her intellectual mentor, Voltaire, had to correct her in a whisper at state dinners because her middle-class turn of phrase was so foreign to the phony formulas of the court. Her surname (Poisson, which means fish) was an endless source of cruel merriment...
...cheerful dignity, but on this day a doleful dirge. On the steps, Caroline brushed a tear from her eye. John-John, who was to have had his third birthday party that day, suddenly looked up and saw the flag on his father's casket. Jackie leaned over to whisper to him, and he saluted. The funeral procession began the last three miles to the cemetery...
...reference Harvardiana, some brash readers have gone so far as to suggest that Mark Epernay, described on the cover-flap as "evidently a distinguished observer of politico-economic trends," is really the pseudonym of a Harvard professor. A few have even had the gall to mention--or, rather, whisper--the name of John Kenneth Galbraith. But that is patently ridiculous. Harvard professors are far too intellectual and have too many hour exams to mark, government officials to consult, and ambassadorial duties to attend to, to have the inclination or the time to write facetous fiction...
...months "coup" had been the loudest whisper heard in South Viet Nam. Coup is what correspondents and lesser U.S. officials talked in the bar at the Hotel Caravelle. Coup is what Diem and his guards feared in the palace. Coup is what the generals finally plotted in their headquarters...