Word: murmuring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When a baby is born with a certain type of heart murmur and is later found to have these valve and septal defects, something must have gone wrong in the womb. But what? And when? Infections may cause some of the valve defects, but not the majority, and not the hole in the wall. What makes the impoverished Negro family from Vian (pop. 930), near the Arkansas border, so interesting to doctors seeking clues to the true nature of the trouble is the fact that four of the offspring had essentially the same heart defects as their mother, although they...
...postwar U.S. breakup of Japan's zaibatsu, the huge and powerful prewar cartels that controlled practically all of Japanese industry, was the most ambitious antitrust action in history. The reemergence of the zaibatsu has been hardly less ambitious. With scarcely a murmur to mark it, the steady reconcentration of the three biggest zaibatsu -Mitsui, Mitsubishi and Sumitomo-has been going on quietly but steadily since 1952. The three now account for more than one-third of Japan's total industrial and commercial business-and they are not finished yet. Last week executives from three big prewar Mitsubishi heavy...
...white man who attended a Negro civil rights rally as a spectator might well be puzzled to hear a speaker say "Now let's get down to the nitty-gritty." The white would probably also be baffled to hear Negroes in the audience murmur "He's facking!" when the speaker made a telling point. But the Negroes present would know perfectly well that the nitty-gritty of a situation is the essentials of it, and that facking means speaking facts, telling the truth...
...late in the ball game, and the Boston Red Sox are clinging to a one-run lead. But the Red Sox pitcher is tiring fast. He throws. Ball one. Another pitch, another ball - and another. The murmur starts in the box seats behind the Boston dugout. Swiftly it spreads through the grandstand and bleachers, picking up cadence, cresting in volume, until all Fenway Park is chanting in unison: "We want The Monster! We want The Monster! We want The Monster!" Manager Johnny Pesky obediently trots out and lifts one hand high above his head, the signal that means: "Send...
...Masters have clearly felt this challenge, for this is the moment they have chosen to murmur about cutting back parietal hours, and the Administration has offered a measure of support for a student union-whose principal function would be to offer undergraduates a place to entertain girls and hence give the Administration an excuse for cutting the hours when girls may be in the Houses. The significance of these rumblings is not that Harvard will actually enact more conservative rules, but that the response of the Masters to Radcliffe's growing liberalism and self-confidence will be reactionary rather than...