Word: murmuring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Following her question, the audience began to murmur...
There has been, recently, a murmur of voices against Harvard's First Annual Award Nite--the much anticipated "Parade of Stars." Protesters seem to feel that perhaps the event is petty in its scope, that it creates unnecessary competition, that it attempts to judge qualities of groups where it has no qualifications to do so. I disagree...
...classroom filled with a steady, affirmative murmur of "mmm-hmm's" punctuated by the occasional shout of "You go, girlfriend!" Sonya J. Wilson opens her soul a peep...
...Quad's own inhabitants are partly to blame for its image problem. The average Quadling, when asked how he or she can stand living there, will at best murmur that it's not so bad, really and inevitably conclude with a rueful comment on the distance. That's all wrong. The proper response should be: "What are you talking about? It's great!" Too often the Quad resident is actually brainwashed by this kind of misdirected sympathy into feeling sorry for himself or herself. There's really no reason for it. We ought to be smirking, or even openly boasting...
...will keep hiring picadors from the back row and pic the bull back far along his spine you will slam sandbags to the kidneys and pass a wine poisoned on the vine you will saw the horns off and murmur the bulls are ah the bulls are not what once they were The corrida will end with Russians in the plaza Swine, some of you will say what did we wrong? And go forth to kiss the conquerors NORMAN MAILER New York City...