Word: murmuring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like so many unqualified people," she had opinions. One of them was about commercials: "What disturbs me is when, instead of the announcer, we are given a pair of young people necking in a canoe. Eventually the boy stops nibbling at the girl's earlobes long enough to murmur huskily: 'Darling, have a Wonderborough, they're milder because they are made only from the tender center leaf.' 'Yes, dear.' she purrs back, 'and did you know that more people are switching to Wonderboroughs than to any other leading brand...
...Normalcy is far different from what Warren Gamaliel Harding was talking about in 1920 when, unwittingly adding a word to the language, he called for "not nostrums but normalcy." That was a static, isolationist normalcy; 1957's is a capacity for tolerating crisis and change. With hardly a murmur, key U.S. cities have accepted the sleek Nike antiaircraft missile batteries as next-door neighbors. Scores of cities have faced up to a decline in local industry by all-out and usually successful attempts to attract new industry. Leading example: South Bend, Ind. South Bend was hit hard...
When the infant's head emerges, the fully conscious mother demands to know whether she has a boy or a girl. "I can't tell," the doctor replies. "That part isn't out yet." Moments later, the shrill wail of young David Usill rises above the murmur of the bedside sounds. "Oh, doctor," breathes the mother, "that's beautiful...
...editors over isolated issues or personalities, but in essence the predominant segment of the press that went for Eisenhower four years ago has stayed with him enthusiastically and uncomplainingly. But if the pro-Ike Cleveland Plain Dealer is right, "The honeymoon is over." For the first time, a general murmur of complaint is rolling across the pro-Administration editorial pages. The editors think the budget should be cut, and they are disturbed because Ike will not cut it-but not so disturbed as to suggest any appreciable slippage in the President's newspaper backing. See PRESS, The First Tiff...
...bright red sweater that makes his eyes seem green. And when he decides to give somebody the full charge of charm, the eyes glow like coals that have been blown on. the educated nostrils flare just the least little bit, and the rich low cello voice begins to murmur intelligently...