Word: whispers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...raging Duvalier sent back word: "Barbot, you will bring me your head." But in voodoo-entranced Haiti the whisper went around that no one could kill Barbot. He had the strange power, they said, to change himself into a black dog and escape at will. In Port-au-Prince, Duvalier's policemen went around shooting black dogs on sight...
...destalinization drive against Peking's attacks, he demanded: "What do they want? To frighten our people, to bring back the days when a man went to his job and did not know whether he would see his wife and children again?" Dropping his voice to a dramatic whisper, Khrushchev said that letters to him from all over the country expressed gratitude for ending the Stalinist terror. Then he added: "If Stalin had died ten years earlier, it would have been even better...
...world commodities can excite international passions the way sugar does. Just a whisper that there would be a shortage (caused by a poor European crop and a drastic fall off in Cuban output) was enough to send sugar prices off on a speculative binge that in recent weeks shot the U.S. raw sugar price up to $13.20 per hundred pounds v. $6.60 in January. As everyone knew it had to, the bubble broke-and last week sugar prices came tumbling down to $10.50 by week's end, with no sign of slowing...
...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...