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Word: whispers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lambretta's Italian competitor, the Vespa, has also been hurt by the auto. But Vespas will continue to be produced at home, leaving the Italian people at least a whisper of a past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Victim of Affluence | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

...have been dealing with an impostor [for Hughes]. It might have been a flimflam man." Then he veered back: the man he had met for all those hours could only have been Hughes. Finally, exhausted and suffering from a case of laryngitis that reduced his normal baritone to a whisper, Irving ended the interview with a shrug: "God, I just don't know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ECCENTRICS: Clifford & Edith & Howard & Helga | 2/7/1972 | See Source »

Hampered by a simulated French accent, Bloom lacks gravity in certain scenes, but her ravishing beauty is authority enough. With a voice that can raise a welt with a whisper, Atkins is monarch of all she surveys. The rest of the excellent cast helps make the Broadhurst Theater a plot of royal ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Star-Crossed Haters | 1/31/1972 | See Source »

...their relationship has been strained by the something that, in Beverly's words, "is basically troubled between us genetically," they do not show it. They still have their private jokes and rituals, such as when Peter kisses Beverly's cheek before she goes onstage and they both whisper their favorite good-luck word: "Merde." Beverly has learned to live with the occasional insinuations that Peter's wealth has floated her career. Once a music publication reported that Peter had bought Westminster Records so that Beverly could record anything she wanted. "I wrote a letter to the editor," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Beverly Sills: The Fastest Voice Alive | 11/22/1971 | See Source »

TEXAS is really two distinct countries. There is high-rolling Texas, oil-rich and cattle-fat, iridescent with electronic gadgetry. This is the Texas of the Hunts and the Murchison brothers and Neiman-Marcus, and multimillion-dollar transactions conducted in private jets that whisper swiftly through the silvery prairie night. Then there is the hardscrabble Texas, dusty and dun, which fans out westward from Fort Worth to towns like Dilley and Draw and Del Rio, where the good ole boys gather round gas-station coolers to drink RC Colas and tell lazy lies. It is a sullen land, worked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State Fair: She Crawls on Her Belly Like a Reptile | 11/1/1971 | See Source »

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