Word: whispers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past 18 months, cautions that it is still too early to determine whether the growths removed will recur. But they are encouraged by their results to date, and so are their patients. Most patients who undergo laser surgery can eat, drink and talk (although only in a whisper) shortly after the anesthetic wears off. All leave the hospital the next...
...Richard Russo, the project manager at Bond Brothers Construction Company, the general contractor for excavation work and utilities preparation, said that "I don't think you'll find any of the drilling to be that noisy" because the company has "whisper compressors...
...Standing behind me was a woman, with lips blue from the cold, who had, of course, never heard me called by name before. Now she started out of the torpor common to us all and asked me in a whisper (everyone whispered there...
...retreat, Zavidova (the equivalent of Camp David), would be appropriate for Nixon, or should the Soviets build something new along the lines of Camp David? Kissinger, who has stayed at Zavidova, thought the quarters were just fine. But at the White House dinner, Brezhnev sent his interpreter over to whisper in Kissinger's ear, asking if he thought the Soviet leader could tell Mrs. Nixon, his dinner companion, about the cottage...
...dreams, if they are indeed dreams, have long since passed nightmarish intensity, though they began innocently enough. The first took me to a benighted, strange city of shuttered houses with sway-backed gambrel roofs that I dimly recognized as Providence, R.I. As I moved through the maze of twisting, whisper-haunted streets, I realized that I seemed to be inexplicably pulled to a preordained destination-the Swan Point Cemetery. There I was drawn in particular to one granite tomb, on which the human eye could discern under the fungoid moon these chiseled letters...