Word: muttering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prize, especially when it was given to so many who deserved it less, like me, who am only an adventurer." Moved by his own heartfelt eloquence. Papa began crying as he departed. Don Pio, also touched, had been able only to mutter an astonished "Caramba...
Then McCormack's hand-picked moderates on the subcommittee retired to hammer out the plank. No one familiar with the unpredictable Democrats was willing to guess what shape it would take. But one thing was certain: civil-rights thunder was going to continue to mutter over the Democrats for a long time to come...
...owners, naturally, seldom see eye to eye with a man dedicated to the proposition that no horse should ever have an unfair advantage, that no horseman should ever get a fast shuffle. Only recently, one well-heeled habitue of Belmont's Turf and Field Club was heard to mutter: "I used to think I hated Roosevelt; then I saw the Jamaica condition book...
...from Aristotle to Freud-has yet worked out a satisfactory definition of humor. Allen concludes that the relationship of the TV fan to his favorite comic is a little like falling in love. Within six months the honeymoon is over. After a year, the fan begins to mutter critical asides. In two years he may switch to another channel. Allen's purpose in writing his book is to make "an examination and somewhat relaxed analysis of television humor"; his major concern is to give his readers a better understanding of TV comedians, and his devout hope is that...
Spread the Gospel. The squabbling, pressures, antagonisms became so violent that at times Hurok was heard to mutter that he had always been able to make a good living without TV, and if RCA and Bing didn't watch out, "that's what he would go back...