Word: whispers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heap in the driveway, but there are still customers aplenty for the expensive, high-precision toys known in the automotive trade as exotic cars. Most of the buyers are men in their early 40s who are lured by names like Aston Martin, Maserati, Ferrari and Lamborghini that whisper freedom and promise sybaritic luxury. Oil-rich Arabs are big buyers: a member of the Saudi Arabian royal family this year paid $114,000 for two Lamborghini Countach-Ss lovingly built in Bologna. Sheiks and wealthy Japanese are queuing up to buy Aston Martin's wedge-shaped, futuristic, four-door Lagonda...
...leaves us with, Kevin "I-built-Quincy-Market" White. White, a benevolent-looking, white-haired man who will turn 50 the day of the preliminary election, has commanded the troops in City Hall for the past 12 years. Is White a glutton for punishment? The mayor, his aides whisper in your ear, has led the city through the worst of times (i.e. the civil war to desegrate the city's schools) and now wants to guide his city into the 1980's. White is seeking an unprecedented fourth term in office and, if enough people stay awake to listen...
...earth happens without God's will. Tell a Cairo taxi driver where you want to go, and he will answer "Inshallah " (If God wills). If a housewife finds tomatoes in the market, she may mutter "Al-hamdu lillah " (Praise be to God). The fellah in the Nile Delta will whisper "Bismillah" (In the name of God) as he sows his field. Egypt's President Anwar Sadat took a statesmanlike risk in making his historic trip to Jerusalem. Yet, as a devout Muslim, he knew that no mere man could control the outcome. Over and over he has said privately, "This...
...schooner, Atlantas, in Los Angeles Harbor, Teacher Ron Remsburg muses: "When you look at that compass, you can say to yourself: I can go any direction in the world that I want to go." Or stay at home, listening to the slapping halyards, creaking hull, bird cries and the whisper of the evening tide...
...whisper went on, "You have to believe me. I swear it's true. I saw the satellite photos of the cloud formation. The Weather Bureau would never admit it, but it's impossible to get those kinds of clouds around here at this time of year. It's too cold for them to form naturally. So it had to be an enhanced storm--nukes in the upper atmosphere. That's the only way we could have gotten the blizzard that we did. They had to make...