Word: muttering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President's staunchest allies in the fight against red ink are Budget Director Stans and Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson, who has taken to arriving at his desk by 7:30 a.m., staying until 7 p.m. or later, and was recently heard to mutter wearily: "Somebody has got to invent a 48-hour day." Anderson and Stans hope to hold down fiscal 1960 spending (beginning next July) by cutting into the scandalous $7 billion-a-year cost of farm programs, switching to the states some federal responsibilities for slum clearance, aid to the aged...
...cellmates mutter and shout, struggle and writhe, and they carry conviction. (If Maharis and his director are unequal to the titanic movement of the "dance which shows Green Eyes trying to go backwards in time" to avoid having committed his crime, it is hard to think of any actor and director who would be capable of it.) But Scott, with his mobile, graceful body, his vaguely West Indian accent, his bland, venomous drawl, has combined his own imagination with Genet's, and made a new creation...
...left to Democrat Harriman to mutter ominously about a Nixon-Rockefeller "deal or understanding . . . It appears to be New York delegation support for Nixon in 1960." said he, "with Mr. Rockefeller playing some part in the Nixon campaign, to tend to give Nixon respectability...
...Lancaster, who stays aboard as Gable's executive officer and makes no bones about his disappointment. What's more, the crew is in Lancaster's corner. When Gable pours on the drill, they fall to without a grumble, but when he ducks a Japanese submarine, they mutter that he is "running scared." And when Gable, in defiance of orders, heads for Bungo Strait, "the graveyard'' where at least four U.S. subs lie buried, a deputation waits on the exec and asks him to take over the boat. After a while, he does...
When her hair grows out, Co Ha will marry the man of her choice. Her father, facing a protracted period of disgrace, went home to count his diminished wealth and mutter imprecations against modern notions. Across the land, Saigon's press reported a sharp increase in shaven-headed maidens, a sharp decrease in arranged marriages. Encouraged, Madame Ngo pressed...