Word: murmuring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blinks with warnings and alarms. Cancer alerts have become almost as commonplace as weather reports. Strictures on how to avoid heart attacks pop up everywhere. Preventive campaigns stir up a constant din of sermons against careless driving, against starting fires, against getting too fat. It is like the continual murmur of doom's own voice...
...took her hand, kissed her head, bent close to murmur some words, and placed on her lap a small box inscribed with the words Totus Tuus (Totally Yours) and the papal coat of arms. When she opened the box, she found a rosary of white beads with a gold cross. Said De Martino: "If you had given me the whole world, it wouldn't have meant so much." A Boston cop who had been standing beside the chair began to weep. "I've got to get back to church," he said, and he walked away...
...host calls for attention and, with a flourish, produces the bottle. His guests murmur approval as he opens it and pours. They slowly swirl their glasses, inhale the delicate bouquet and then sip. "A bit flat for my taste," sighs one. "Nonsense," retorts another. "It's delightful, light and refreshing." Says the host: "An amusing little water...
...summoning them to a 10:30 meeting at Top of the Week, the conference room on the 40th floor of the magazine's Manhattan headquarters. When they arrived, they were surprised to find Katharine Graham, chairman of the parent Washington Post Co. Recounted one writer: "People began to murmur, 'God, we're closing down ... We've been bought...
...June air was torn by the peal of church bells, the buzz of helicopters, the crackle of loudspeaker commands, the waves of thundering applause, the melodious drone of old hymns, the murmur of Masses being said, dozens of them, beneath the burning sun of an early Polish summer...