Word: whispers
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...trees sucking water out of the salty white gypsum. There are wattles, paperbark and bloodwood eucalypts; among them pink Major Mitchell cockatoos shatter the oppressive silence with their raucous screams as they feed. Fairy wrens dart between flowering shrubs, and from the knee-high sedges and grasses comes the whisper of tiny life...
...chewing the fat under the Texas Aggie flag and the moth-eaten Cape buffalo head that?alongside yellowed Waylon Jennings and Kitty Wells record covers?grace the bar's wood-paneled walls. They'll wax nostalgic over fortunes made and squandered, over women loved and comrades lost. They'll whisper of gun running in Laos, of Tet and of black ops. Tall tales? Who knows. Truth, legends and conspiracy theories overlap and blur once the booze is flowing...
...disposition but runs a tight ship. The athletes train in two or three groups on different apparatuses, while Belu and Mariana Bitang, his coaching partner, cajole and encourage them from the sidelines. There is little obvious camaraderie among the girls. They focus on their performances, voices rarely above a whisper. Ponor stands out easily. Though petite by normal standards, she is the second- tallest of the Olympic lineup and has a commanding presence on the floor. According to Comaneci, she has a very good shot at at least one Olympic gold. Her uneven bars routine needs work, Comaneci says...
...Ertegun and house arranger Jesse Stone had to prod the new guy to drop the crooning (on some early recordings, like ?It Should?ve Been Me? and ?Greenbacks,? he adopts the nasal whisper of a race-track tout) and get forceful. Charles also learned that he was his best composer. His first pieces were primitive and primal. The lyrics to ?Don?t You Know? might be maddeningly, mantra-ingly repetitive (?Don?t you know, baby/ Child, don?t you know, baby/ Don?t you know, baby/ Little girl, little girl, don?t you know/ Please listen to me, baby/ Girl...
...turned out, Sowle, 55, proved one of the county's most enthusiastic gay-marriage proponents. (Later, people would whisper that the short-haired woman who lives with her mother is a lesbian. Sowle chuckles: "Both of my previous husbands would say I'm not.") On her own, she had begun to explore the marriage question back in November, when the Massachusetts court issued its pro-gay-marriage ruling. As the attorney who has to defend the county when it's sued for discrimination, she was keenly aware of the liabilities her jurisdiction could face if a gay couple demanded...